On Friday 06 Feb 2015 14:58:43 Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-02-06 at 11:01 +0000, Terry Coles wrote:
> > I don't have the original Windows ISO at the moment, so I thought I'd try
> > grabbing the Fedora 21 ISO off the latest Linux Format DVD. That seemed
> > to work, but then I just got a grey screen, when I tried to launch it. I
> > was never asked to go though the Installation process, so presumably,
> > Boxes has laid down the CD image without try to boot into it.
>
> Did you choose the 'Install to Hard Drive' option when the ISO booted?
> After clicking 'Create' on the Create a Box page, you should see the
> 'Starting Fedora Live in ..' boot screen followed shortly afterwards by
> a graphical 'Welcome to Fedora' screen showing a choice: 'Try Fedora' |
> 'Install to Hard Drive'.
I never got an option to 'Install to Hard Drive', just 'Start Fedora 21'. The
first time, the usual sort of screen messages appeared at first, then the grey
screen mentioned. I just tried it again and got a kernel panic, (the actual
message scrolled off the screen, but eventuality everything stopped.
I just tried again using some of the other images off the Linux Format DVD and
only got as far as a running live disc with Manjaro. When I tried to install
it nothing much seemed to happen, but I may have got bored. After all, I only
want to prove that I can install WXP and at the moment it's looking a bit
dodgy.
Anyone know why Boxes can't seem to be able to boot from the plain ol' CD?
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