Hi everyone, as I use VirtualBox a lot on my Mac, I thought I would give it a try on my linux machines. On one machine running openSUSE 10.3 as host everything works, I could install a Windows 7 Beta without problems.
But on my other machine, also running 10.3, the installation of openSUSE 11.1 just hangs after the kernel is loaded. You first get the boot screen, where you choose what you want to do (boot from hard disk, install, verify media, ...). After selecting Installation the smaller "popup" appears saying "Loading Kernel". After that the "boot splash" should show up, where a small progress bar is visible. By pressing ESC you could quit this splash, and see the normal message lines from the boot process. But on this machine, I just get a black screen, and the CPU load goes up to 100%. I tested some other ISOs, a DamnSmallLinux, openSUSE 11.0 and some other, all seemed to work with the same setup. I first thought the machine is too old (Athlon 1200 with 768 MB RAM), but as the other ISOs work, it seems to be a problem with just this ISO. I tried the Netinstall-ISO of openSUSE 11.1, which also shows the same behaviour. I then tried to switch off as much of the options I found, inlcuding network, ACPI, IO APCI. VT and PAE are not usable on this old CPU, so they are greyed out from the start. 3D is off, too. I set the graphics memory to 8MB, which changed nothing. So, no matter what option I choose in the boot menu (safe settings, no apci,...) or what I change in the VirtualBox settings, I just cannot get this ISOs to load. Any hints? Regards, OJ -- Give a man fire, and he will be warm for a day, set a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life. (Terry Pratchett)
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