Problem booting in VirtualBox after install

[Piki]

Ah, it feels good to be back after my long absence 🙂

Anyway, this is in Oracle VirtualBox 3.2.6 with 1GB RAM and 64MB Video RAM and 3D acceleration enabled.

Milestone 2 pre2 doesn’t boot after install (it just hangs at the bootsplash), though Live CD mode works. I have tried with IO APIC both on and off. I am in the process of downloading the weekly snapshot.

[Piki]

The development snapshot yields the same result.

[ercolinux]

Welcome back 🙂

You say that hangs just after the boot: you don’t have any other hint?

You’ve tried to start in debug mode?

Ercole

[Piki]

Apparently, it can’t access device dev(0,0) , nor can kinit find init . Also, it complains of something trying to access the hardware directly (this is a computer that doesn’t always have Internet access, my current Internet access is very intermittent).

[Silvan]

I’m going to test a VirtualBox installation to see and fix this as this problem should happen independently from hardware.

[Silvan]

I’ve successfully installed the latest snapshot (20100719) under VirtualBox. The box is configured with an IDE Controller PIIX4, maybe you set up a SATA or SCSI controller?

[Piki]

VirtualBox automatically chose AHCI SATA for me, I will try installing it with IDE. Problem is, my only currently working machine is an AHCI SATA controller, so if this is not supported in openmamba, I will not be able to do a live install.

[Piki]

Hmm, even when using PIIX3, PIIX4, and ICH6 for my IDE setup in VirtualBox, it gives the same exact kernel panic.

[Silvan]

So the problem must be elsewhere. You can start the system in debug mode and take a snapshot of the last messages by following these instructions:

http://wiki.openmamba.org/en/index.php/Problems_when_the_system_starts

Have you configured in the box a combination of IDE and SATA drives? This may issue a known problem in the root= kernel parameter, so you also can try with different root= boot options. Anyway we can diagnose this by looking at the debug messages as said above.

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