Johannes Kastl wrote: > 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 > Try entering splash=0 at the boot menu screen and see what happens. I experienced a hang on pressing esc during the splash screen stage with 32 bit 11.1 on a normal installation, not virtual. Regards Dave P
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