Can't get RHEL 9.x to load on VBOX - error log below!

[Shoal Shack]

I've got VBOX loaded on my MAC host and running Ubuntu (VM) without issue but i can't seem to get RHEL 9.x to load for some reason! The log is attached below - someone please help! THANKS!!

[scottgus1]

The log was partial, the VM not having completed before the log was taken.

Please start the VM from full normal shutdown, not save-state. Run until you see the problem happen, then shut down the VM from within the VM's OS if possible. If not possible, close the Virtualbox window for the VM with the Power Off option set.

Right-click the VM in the main Virtualbox window's VM list, choose Show in Explorer/Finder/File Manager. In the "Logs" subfolder, zip the VM's "vbox.log", and post the zip file, using the forum's Attachments tab. (Configure your host OS to show all extensions so you can find the "vbox.log", not "vbox.log.1", etc.)

[Shoal Shack]

thanks - followed instructions and log file from show finder is attached.

[scottgus1]

That was a .png file, not a log.

[Shoal Shack]

sorry about that. Here's the log file.

[Shoal Shack]

any update here after submitting the LOG file? Thanks!

[fth0]

00:00:11.586617 ISOLINUX 6.04  ETCDisolinux: Image checksum error, sorry...                     

This seems to be a problem in the VirtualBox unattended installation, see #21566 for details.

[scottgus1]

Thanks for the reminder, I forgot about this one.

The VM's guru meditated as soon as the VM attempted to boot from the ISO, having read precisely 42kB from it:

00:00:11.565338 VMMDev: Guest Log: BIOS: Booting from CD-ROM...
00:00:11.579188 Changing the VM state from 'RUNNING' to 'GURU_MEDITATION'
00:00:11.579235 Console: Machine state changed to 'Stuck'
00:00:11.579666 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
00:00:11.579668 !!
00:00:11.579679 !! VCPU0: Guru Meditation 1155 (VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT)
...
00:00:13.327161 /Devices/IDE0/ATA1/Unit0/ReadBytes 43008 bytes

I suspect this is a bad ISO. If other ISOs work but this one fails, try re-downloading it.

One other thing, that probably did not affect this run:

00:00:01.992665 Host RAM: 16384MB (16.0GB) total, 5221MB (5.0GB) available
00:00:02.088356 RamSize <integer> = 0x0000000192100000 (6 745 489 408, 6.2 GiB)
00:00:02.088660 VRamSize <integer> = 0x0000000001000000 (16 777 216, 16.0 MiB)

RAM was overprovisioned on this run. You may need to reduce other running apps at this VM RAM setting, or reduce VM RAM. VM video RAM might need to go up, though, if there is an intense video desktop to be used.

[fth0]

I suspect this is a bad ISO.

No, it's rather a bug in VirtualBox, which calculates the checksum itself during unattended installation.

PS: I know, we were analyzing at the same time.

[scottgus1]

Interesting, fth0! How did you diagnose that?

[fth0]

How did you diagnose that?

The main part was googling for the text on the VGA screen (see the quote in my first post to locate it in the log file). All results pointed to VirtualBox 7.0 and unattended installation of different RHEL guests. Including the 9 months old ticket in the Bugtracker.

What I didn't mention is that Unattended Installation is currently being worked on for VirtualBox 7.1, including bug fixes in the area of calculation of SHA-2 checksums. Since the (publicly available) SVN repository only includes the SVN trunk (7.0.97 aka pre-7.1), I don't know if the bugfixes have been backported to the VirtualBox 7.0.13 test builds.

[scottgus1]

Ah, I see it now, it was in your post above mine. Thanks!

So maybe doing a manual installation instead of unattended would get around this?

[fth0]

So maybe doing a manual installation instead of unattended would get around this?

Yes, that's what the author of the ticket stated in their Description.

[Shoal Shack]

i reloaded the RHEL 9.3 ISO and encountered the same problem. How can i manually install the ISO?

Is that a secondary step in Vbox?

[scottgus1]

Did you see or fill out this page in the Create Virtual Machine Wizard?



If you did, then you did an Unattended Install.

Checking this box:



so the "Unattended Guest OS Install Setup" page with username password above does not appear in the Wizard, or the Wizard reports that you could not do an unattended install, then you did a normal install.