black screen when starting Debian VM

[BeeGee]

I've read through several "black screen Debian on startup" Post.
I followed the instruction in this post forums virtualbox -org =95442
I started by recreating a new vm, taking the defaults, upped the cpu=2, mem=2048, videoMem=256 and reinstalled the
iso "2020-02-12-rpd-x86-buster"

And, I still get the black screen w a blinking cursor. Interesting thing is, rather than doing an Install of the .iso,
I choose " run with persistence" I can get a desktop with all the icons and access to the OS and applications.

As always any and all assistance is greatly appreciated,

BG

[BeeGee]

Resolved:
I'm not sure what caused it or exactly what I did to fix it. I believe the problem was 1 of the 3 installs, the 2nd. It's VM directory was much smaller than the other 2.

- the sort story:
1. I removed/uninstalled virtual box from my window10 system. Installed the new minor rev level which had been released, Version 6.1.16 r140961 (Qt5.6.2), prior release was 6.0.14(???)

2. Deleted the "virtual box" director which has all the files that are created when a VM is created and an os is installed.

3. Success on next VM build and installation of the Pi Debian OS iso.





- I found in my folder where all the files for the VM's reside, the 3 attempts to

[scottgus1]

Great! Glad you kept up the hunt and found a solution.