I've just upgraded Virtualbox to 5.2.6. I don't remember which version I came from, but it couldn't have been older than 4 weeks, since that's how old my pc is. I had one VM installed, Linux Mint latest version. I had set it up as an EFI (ticked that box). It worked fine. Brilliant actually.
Now after the upgrade I got into the EFI shell after booting. I turned off EFI to see why, because the EFI shell doesn't tell me why *it* is starting instead of the OS. 'No bootable medium found' is the answer.
How to install OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) on VirtualBox 4.3? Ask Question Asked 5 years, 8 months ago. Doesn't seem to work for macOS 10.12 Sierra. I always get the error: no bootable medium found. The InstallESD.dmg is mounted as the CD/DVD drive. – Mike Lischke Jan 25 '17 at 10:51. VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on. VirtualBox is a community effort backed by a dedicated company: everyone is encouraged to contribute while Oracle ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria. Feb 01, 2018 In work you may need to build your application in MacOS environment without Apple Macbook or iMac or other hardware. Name your new machine as “MacOS”. Choose last version from possible versions.
I checked and double-checked. The harddisk is configured correctly. The boot order is configured correctly. There's no way I have misconfigured anything in this regard (mind you, I have some experience with setting up Virtualbox VMs). Besides, it worked fine until today and I haven't changed anything expect the upgrade.
There are setups available for different architecture types. I first tried with aarch64. But could not get past the same error: Fatal: no bootable medium found! System Halted. Tried everything but never solved. Then I tried 'i386'. And it worked. Dec 25, 2014 How to fix no bootable medium found! System halted on virtual box is fixed. Hit like and subscribe if it works. How to make bootable image http://smarter23.b.
If you have already one, just add a CD (at the left from add hard-drive button) and run VirtualBox machine again. Edited: Well, seeing your images, the only thing what I can think is when you run the virtual machine, press F2 to enter on boot menu, select the CD, key C and start the Windows XP installation, you should be able to install it. FATAL: No bootable medium found! You would normally burn this file to an empty CD or DVD and proceed as just described. With VirtualBox however, you can skip.
I've also tried to change from PIIX3 to ICH9. No difference.
I've checked again and the harddisk isn't empty or anything. The installed OS is still there, just waiting to get booted someday.
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