VMM: Clonezilla exits to login prompt without IO_APIC
Posted: 16. Jul 2011, 09:39
I'm using VirtualBox-4.1 beta 3 on Ubuntu 10.04, 32 bit. Within a vm, I'm trying to boot into clonezilla-live-1.2.8-46-i486.iso. With beta2, it works perfectly.
With beta3, I have to activate IO_APIC. Otherwise clonezilla exits to a login prompt after the first couple of screens.
What's strange is this: I tried to reproduce the original error message, so I deactivated IO_APIC again. Afterwards, it still works, no boot prompt. I'm sure it didn't work before. And I'm sure I only added IO_APIC for the VM and nothing else. So from a user standpoint, the VM is now configured exactly the same as at the beginning of my tests. Initially, Clonezilla exited into the login prompt, now it works. Strange, isn't it?
With beta3, I have to activate IO_APIC. Otherwise clonezilla exits to a login prompt after the first couple of screens.
What's strange is this: I tried to reproduce the original error message, so I deactivated IO_APIC again. Afterwards, it still works, no boot prompt. I'm sure it didn't work before. And I'm sure I only added IO_APIC for the VM and nothing else. So from a user standpoint, the VM is now configured exactly the same as at the beginning of my tests. Initially, Clonezilla exited into the login prompt, now it works. Strange, isn't it?