Guest bootstrap loop after setting up guest additions

[vareg]

Hi,

Again I'm needing some help today, here is the situation : I have(had) FreeBSD 9.3 running perfectly fine as a guest on my VB 4.3.15(under Windows 8 Enterprise eval), I had Gnome 2 freshly installed on top of X and running perfectly well, but then, since I cannot do with a 640x480 screen, I decided naturally to install guest addition.

So I did :

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#pkg_add -r virtualbox-ose-additions

added the following to my /etc/rc.conf

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vboxguest_enable="YES"
vboxservice_enable="YES"

my current user was part of the wheel group already
but then, I rebooted, and now FreeBSD reboots in a loop.............

Also, rebooting in single user mode does not allow me revert my changes as it says rc.conf is read-only...

Does anyone have the slightest idea as to why it does that and how to come out of this loop?

[mpack]

Why post this in "Windows Hosts"? What relevance are you saying the choice of host has with this issue?

[vareg]

ok I misread the categories but then I cannot find how to move the post now, because that needs to be done by a mod ?
now being very new to virtualization, also very new to windows 8 and up to that point, nothing tells me windows 8 has 0% responsability in this. I do agree it looks like it's got nothing to do with the host OS for now, but this i do not know yet for sure, which is why I am here, because I haven't the slightest idea why the problem occurred in the first place.

[mpack]

Moved to "Linux Guests". I'll leave it for a FreeBSD expert to address your actual problem.

[vareg]

Thx but I've just seen FreeBSD is addressed in 'Other Guests', so shouldn't it got there instead?

[Perryg]

Yes it should. As for you loop issue you probably need to ask the FreeBSD folks as you are using their version of the guest additions.

[vareg]

yes that makes sense too

[mpack]

Well, we don't have a generic Unix forum so Linux is the closest we have, and certainly fits better than "Windows Hosts". "Other Guests" would work too.

[vareg]

I won't argue with that