Guest OS doesn't boot.

[agbr]

My distro is opensuse 10.1 ( kernel 2.6.16 ). I couldn't run successfully any OS in VBox. VBox always shows a black screen with a cursor and gets 100% of CPU. Unfortunately I can't provide more useful information for this ticket.

[Achim Hasenmueller]

Fixed in 1.3.4.

[agbr]

However, I've used current svn-trunk (1.3.99) and there is the same issue.

[Klaus Espenlaub]

Can you provide more information? There should be a log file in ~/.VirtualBox/Machines/VMNAME/Logs/VBox.log. Without more information it's impossible to tell what's wrong and keeping this bug report open without having any information is useless.

[Klaus Espenlaub]

Are you sure your ISO is OK (the size matches the size of my Knoppix 5.0.1 CD ISO)?

Your log confirms the "nothing happens" part. The logo is shown, then the guest switches back to text mode. Then it resets the secondary IDE controller (normal part of BIOS POST). And that was it. The next line should be Knoppix switching to graphics mode to display its boot screen. But of course that can only happen if the BIOS has booted from a working CD image.

[agbr]

cd

[agbr]

Yes, i sure. I've tried to boot the VM from real cd. I've attached the log.

[agbr]

Maybe it will help.

cat /proc/cpuinfo

{{{processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 14 model name : Genuine Intel(R) CPU T1350 @ 1.86GHz stepping : 8 cpu MHz : 1862.000 cache size : 2048 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 10 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe nx constant_tsc pni monitor est tm2 xtpr bogomips : 3731.37}}}

[Majandi]

I'm having the same problem in Ubuntu Feisty trying to start WinXP

[Sander van Leeuwen]

Try again with 1.4.0 please.