Win8.1 boot screen does not appear

[AndrewFNZ]

Hi I'm trying to get Win8.1 running on a MacOS host using Yosemite 10.10.2.
Whenever I start the VM the Win8.1 boot screen does not appear, but instead displays the screen attached.

Screen Shot 2015-04-24 at 1.16.06 pm.png (37.36 KiB) Viewed 1993 times

I'm using the following host
MacbookAir (early 2014)
Processor: 1.4GHz Intel Core i5
Memory: 4GB
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 5000 1536MB

I've also attached the VMlog from the last attempt to run the VM.

Any help would be appreciated.

[loukingjr]

Andrew, where did you get the "SW_DVD9_SA_Win_Ent_8.1_64BIT_Eng_Intl_-3_MLF_X19-84072.ISO"?

[AndrewFNZ]

It was downloaded from the MS Partner Site by our sys admin back in January 2015.

[loukingjr]

I've never seen a screen such as yours. Perhaps someone will come along that has.

[Martin]

You have another problem, not enough free memory:
00:00:00.881430 Host RAM: 4096MB total, 1590MB available\
00:00:00.962029 RamSize <integer> = 0x0000000080000000 (2 147 483 648, 2 048 MB)\

[loukingjr]

It's possible that the lack of memory that Martin pointed out could cause your screen issue. You could try changing the guest RAM to 1024 and see if it helps.

[mpack]

I would also check the MD5 checksum of the ISO.

[AndrewFNZ]

Thank you for your help! The issue was a corrupt .ISO file - doh.
I compared the checksum of the .ISO file using md5 and identified a difference.
Downloaded a new version which worked as expected.

[mpack]

That's good, but you can't ignore Martin's point either. You shouldn't allocate more than 1GB RAM to this guest on this host.

[AndrewFNZ]

Yes, I forgot to say thank you to Martin as his suggestion was the first thing I changed to correct the memory error.
Thanks