Can't install Debian 11 on Ubuntu
Can't install Debian 11 on Ubuntu
Hi,
I've been trying for days to install Debian bullseye on virtualbox but every single time I get the same problem
When the installation is complete, I get a blackscreen with only a [ _ ] popping in and out, it's been like that for hours now.
What I tried :
1) Restarting the VM (obviously)
2) Reinstalling it with different parameters (without any additional packages)
3) allocating more space/cpu/ram
4) tinkering with the "System" parameters until something different happens (if I Enable EFI it starts differently with yellow characters and all but still won't start)
5) Reinstalling by only clicking OK OK OK without changing anything
Same outcome.
I hope it's important to mention that I'm running it on Ubuntu 22.04 which starts from GRUB (ubuntu - w10)
Please help.
I've been trying for days to install Debian bullseye on virtualbox but every single time I get the same problem
When the installation is complete, I get a blackscreen with only a [ _ ] popping in and out, it's been like that for hours now.
What I tried :
1) Restarting the VM (obviously)
2) Reinstalling it with different parameters (without any additional packages)
3) allocating more space/cpu/ram
4) tinkering with the "System" parameters until something different happens (if I Enable EFI it starts differently with yellow characters and all but still won't start)
5) Reinstalling by only clicking OK OK OK without changing anything
Same outcome.
I hope it's important to mention that I'm running it on Ubuntu 22.04 which starts from GRUB (ubuntu - w10)
Please help.
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Re: Can't install Debian 11 on Ubuntu
Try assigning 2 CPU cores (vCPUs), and increase graphics RAM to 128MB.
Re: Can't install Debian 11 on Ubuntu
Sorry for the delay, and thank you for your answer but it didn't work (unless I did it wrong?)
Here I recorded my parameters and how the launch goes.
youtube . com/watch?v=9jK_wHZO2bg
(Can't post urls yet)
The boot order mentions floppy, optical and hard disk but again, those are the default options and I don't know if they make any difference.
Here I recorded my parameters and how the launch goes.
youtube . com/watch?v=9jK_wHZO2bg
(Can't post urls yet)
The boot order mentions floppy, optical and hard disk but again, those are the default options and I don't know if they make any difference.
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Re: Can't install Debian 11 on Ubuntu
Ubuntu is known to go blackscreen if there is not enough free disk space to start the desktop environment. This happens in real PCs too. The solution is to log on text-only and delete stuff until the desktop environment can start. Web-search how to fix this in an Ubuntu PC and apply the steps to the VM. Also see How to Resize a Drive
Also try HostKey-F to toggle the VM's Fullscreen setting.
Also try HostKey-F to toggle the VM's Fullscreen setting.
Re: Can't install Debian 11 on Ubuntu
I think you misunderstand the problem, my own Ubuntu starts on a NVMe disk with 123,3gb of space, 30,4gb is used (including for the VM)scottgus1 wrote:Ubuntu is known to go blackscreen if there is not enough free disk space to start the desktop environment. This happens in real PCs too. The solution is to log on text-only and delete stuff until the desktop environment can start. Web-search how to fix this in an Ubuntu PC and apply the steps to the VM. Also see How to Resize a Drive
Also try HostKey-F to toggle the VM's Fullscreen setting.
The debian I'm trying to install has 21,95gb of allocated space, and doesn't start for some reason.
I'm not trying to setup Ubuntu in Virtualbox, but Debian. The Ubuntu is my primary OS on which VirtualBox is installed.
Here's my most recent log, I deleted the the old ones, started the machine until it showed the beeping underscore, waited a few seconds and shut it down.
https://textdoc.co/index.php/0weE4rLnGX9Nfbmp
(Again, file is too big and can't upload it without posting a url)
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Re: Can't install Debian 11 on Ubuntu
Sorry, forgot to replace "Ubuntu" with "Debian". Ubuntu is based on Debian, and the blackscreen thing may be from the parent instead of the child.
And there was the "Fullscreen" thing....
Zipped logs fit on Upload Attachment.
And there was the "Fullscreen" thing....
Zipped logs fit on Upload Attachment.
Re: Can't install Debian 11 on Ubuntu
Yeah sorry about that but the .log file weights 144kbs for some reason, (limit is 128) and if I answered that is because I have plenty of space but as you can see on the video, nothing boots up.scottgus1 wrote:Sorry, forgot to replace "Ubuntu" with "Debian". Ubuntu is based on Debian, and the blackscreen thing may be from the parent instead of the child.
And there was the "Fullscreen" thing....
Zipped logs fit on Upload Attachment.
I checked how to login in text only, but I can't even do that because nothing appears. I found that reddit post from 6 months ago with the exact same problem, but even the Alt+F2 key (and any other combination imaginable) doesn't do anything.
The problem clearly comes from the graphic drivers, but I can't even install them from debian because it doesn't let me give him the instructions...
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Re: Can't install Debian 11 on Ubuntu
And when you .zip it, what happens?Melhior wrote:the .log file weights 144kbs
Did you try toggling Fullscreen?
Re: Can't install Debian 11 on Ubuntu
Fullscreen works fine, the "window" is scaled in the middle but it's working, although nothing else is showing up.scottgus1 wrote:And when you .zip it, what happens?Melhior wrote:the .log file weights 144kbs
Did you try toggling Fullscreen?
And the log file can be uploaded in a .rar yep.
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Re: Can't install Debian 11 on Ubuntu
The VM's OS ran for only 3.03 seconds. Some OS's are pretty quick, but I haven't seen one that can get anywhere near the desktop, let alone start all its background services and get to the login screen, in only 3 seconds. My DOS VM is really fast, because it has so little to do, but it's not 3 seconds fast.the log wrote:00:00:00.755079 VirtualBox VM 6.1.42 r155177 linux.amd64 (Jan 11 2023 20:17:44) release log
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00:00:03.519829 VMMDev: Guest Log: BIOS: Booting from Hard Disk...
(no log lines here, log goes from 0:03 to 0:06)
00:00:06.546076 Changing the VM state from 'RUNNING' to 'SUSPENDING'
The VM OS apparently never showed any activity. Maybe it wasn't left on long enough?
Re: Can't install Debian 11 on Ubuntu
No that's just an example of what happens before it reaches the "buggy" state. I left it running for hours with no changes.scottgus1 wrote:The VM's OS ran for only 3.03 seconds. Some OS's are pretty quick, but I haven't seen one that can get anywhere near the desktop, let alone start all its background services and get to the login screen, in only 3 seconds. My DOS VM is really fast, because it has so little to do, but it's not 3 seconds fast.the log wrote:00:00:00.755079 VirtualBox VM 6.1.42 r155177 linux.amd64 (Jan 11 2023 20:17:44) release log
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00:00:03.519829 VMMDev: Guest Log: BIOS: Booting from Hard Disk...
(no log lines here, log goes from 0:03 to 0:06)
00:00:06.546076 Changing the VM state from 'RUNNING' to 'SUSPENDING'
The VM OS apparently never showed any activity. Maybe it wasn't left on long enough?
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Re: Can't install Debian 11 on Ubuntu
When I create a new VM and run it without installing anything on the virtual hard disk, VirtualBox reads the MBR from the 1st sector of the virtual hard disk, doesn't find any bootable partition and stops with the "FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted." message on the screen. The IEM executes 612 CPU instructions for that.fth0's VBox.log file wrote:00:00:05.062953 VMMDev: Guest Log: BIOS: Boot : bseqnr=3, bootseq=0002 00:00:05.063440 VMMDev: Guest Log: BIOS: Boot from Hard Disk 0 failed 00:00:05.064306 VMMDev: Guest Log: No bootable medium found! System halted. [...] 00:00:09.645669 /IEM/CPU0/cInstructions 612 count [...] 00:00:09.646669 /Public/Storage/PIIX3IDE0/Port0/BytesRead 512 bytes
VirtualBox has only read the 1st sector from the virtual hard disk, perhaps containing an MBR. Perhaps the virtual hard disk has been formatted with the GPT partitioning scheme instead of the MBR partitioning scheme. VirtualBox does not support the combination of legacy BIOS and GPT, so you have to either choose "legacy BIOS + MBR" or "UEFI BIOS + GPT" when installing a guest OS.Melhior's VBox.log file wrote:00:00:03.519829 VMMDev: Guest Log: BIOS: Booting from Hard Disk... [...] 00:00:07.715407 /IEM/CPU0/cInstructions 660 count [...] 00:00:07.718656 /Public/Storage/AHCI0/Port0/BytesRead 512 bytes
Re: Can't install Debian 11 on Ubuntu
Sorry but I'm giving up now, It's been days that I've been experimenting and researching and still no changes, it's pissing me off, I'm out.