Re: [PLUG] Dual booting Linux and Windows

["Eric H. Johnson via plug" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

Walt, et al,

Got it. It was the stinkin' USB port. The drive is powered by the USB port.
Perhaps on this machine, only one port is a high power port capable of
driving it. The other ports see the drive, but can't mount it.

Thanks,
Eric

On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 06:57:06PM -0400, Eric H. Johnson via plug wrote:
> All,
> 
> Almost there. Gave up on dual booting, but have it running under 
> VirtualBox. Last problem to solve is connecting to a USB external 
> drive. It is Ext3 or Ext4 file format, so Windows can't read it 
> directly, and it is encrypted. VIrtualBox sees the drive and I have 
> added it to devices for this VM. According to what I read, I also need 
> to add my user to the vboxusers group. That group does not exist, but 
> vboxsf does. I added my user to that group. When I try to add the 
> device, VirtualBox gives an error of "Failure to attach to the USB 
> device...".
> 
> Any ideas what I am missing?

As it happens I've also been experimenting with virtualbox this week. One
thing you could try is to mount the drive in Linux, then make it a shared
folder from the virtualbox UI.

Walt

___________________________________________________________________________
Philadelphia Linux Users Group         --        http://www.phillylinux.org
Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce
General Discussion  --   http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug