Hi!

Forrest Barth:
> Hello everyone! First I'd like to thank you for the work you do on this
> project. You make the world a better place.

Thanks! & thanks for your report here.

> I wanted to report a possible regression in 2.7. I am no longer able to get
> Tails to boot, either in normal startup or in failsafe. In normal startup,
> it goes to a blank black screen with only a single underscore character in
> the top left. When attempting a failsafe startup, it reads "Probing EDD
> (edd=off to disable)... ok" and then has the solid underscore at the
> beginning of the next line. If I add the "edd=off" string to the boot time
> options for failsafe, I get the same behavior as the normal startup attempt.
> 
> I was able to boot 2.6 without issue immediately before attempting this.
> Unfortunately I deleted the 2.6 ISO image and am unable to find it on the
> site (I would imagine this is by design to try to prevent users from
> running vulnerable versions?). For giggles I deleted the VM and tried to
> start from scratch again, getting the same result. I am running macOS
> 10.12.1 and Virtualbox 5.1.8 r111374.

Can you try
1. to run it in a 64-bit virtual machine?
2. if your run Linux, can you try using virt-manager instead of Virtualbox?

I use virt-manager on a 64bit CPU and 2.7 boots fine.

Cheers!
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