Hi Alex, The new version boots fine on qemu under windows 7 x64. Under virtualbox on the same platform, get stuck with a black screen that says Loading PilOS with nothing else displayed
This is how I converted the image "c:\Program Files\qemu\qemu-img.exe" convert -O vmdk x86-64.img x86-64.vmdk The symptoms are the same when I use vboxmanage to convert: c:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe convertfromraw x86-64.img x86-64_vbox.vmdk --format VMDK Converting from raw image file="x86-64.img" to file="x86-64_vbox.vmdk".. Creating dynamic image with size 684032 bytes (1MB)... It still freezes on the black screen Loading PilOS On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Alexander Burger <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > it seems that there are still problems with booting PilOS. > > While it works for me (on Qemu and on my Acer notebook), it hear that on > other emulators or hardware people just see a black screen. So I would > be glad to find out the reason(s). > > > One reason might be that the image is not recognized as a hard disk: > > > http://reboot.pro/topic/7512-fool-the-bios-booting-any-usb-stick-as-a-hard-disk > > So I followed the suggestions there, and changed the partition table to > two dummy-partitions instead of one. Also, I set one System ID to > "Linux" ("83", instead of the arbitrary "22" before), and the other to > "Linux swap" (ID "82"). I don't know if this helps though. > > > Also, I added a few diagnostic messages, to see how far it gets. > > So anybody daring to try it is welcome! As before, PilOS can be > downloaded from > > http://software-lab.de/pilos.tgz > > and put on an USB-Stick, e.g. on /dev/sdb > > $ sudo dd if=x86-64.img of=/dev/sdb > > Then try to boot (only on x86-64 (Amd64) hardware, of course). > > ♪♫ Alex > -- > UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:[email protected]?subject=Unsubscribe -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:[email protected]?subject=Unsubscribe
