[Solved] Problem running Unbuntu under Ubuntu

[trick17]

Hi all

I have installed virtual box on my ubuntu (8.04) system. I have already working Windows XP and a Redhat 9 VMs, however I'm not able to install Ubuntu as a client.

When I boot from the iso image, I see the boot screen of ubuntu. After I selected "install" I just recieve a blank screen. It seems to be a problem with the graphic mode (I also tried to boot from a boot cd (backtrack) with no success)

Here is what I'm using:

Virtual Box 2.02, Ubuntu 8.04, ATI graphic card (using the ATI drivers)

Any ideas?

Thank you

[stephanecharette]

When I boot from the iso image, I see the boot screen of ubuntu. After I selected "install" I just recieve a blank screen. It seems to be a problem with the graphic mode (I also tried to boot from a boot cd (backtrack) with no success)

I had this several years ago with a bad Ubuntu CD I'd burned. Took me forever to finally try a new CD.

Several ideas:

1) what if you boot your actual computer (not VB) with this CD -- does it work?
2) what if you choose the option on the boot menu to verify the CD -- does it work?
3) is there anything in the machine log that might be useful (error messages) once it hangs?

If you are using the VB GUI, the machine logs are available in Machine -> Show Logs... (CTRL+L).

(Post-edit: you're booting from .iso, not from a CD...just clued in. Ignore steps 1 and 2 I guess.)

Stéphane

[trick17]

Hi stephane

I tried it with several cds/iso images, but it doesn't change antything.
As far as I can see, I don't find anything usefull in the logfiles

Regards

[trick17]

aaaa, just revied the logs again:

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00:06:44.208 Guest Log: Key pressed: 0001
00:06:44.371 PIT: mode=2 count=0x10000 (65536) - 18.20 Hz (ch=0)
00:06:44.371 Guest Log: BIOS: Boot from Floppy 0 failed
00:06:44.372 Guest Log: BIOS: Booting from CD-ROM...
00:06:44.384 Display::handleDisplayResize(): uScreenId = 0, pvVRAM=0000000000000000 w=720 h=400 bpp=0 cbLine=0x0
00:06:44.407 Display::handleDisplayResize(): uScreenId = 0, pvVRAM=00007fc4f2b00000 w=640 h=480 bpp=16 cbLine=0x500
00:06:48.366 Guest Log: BIOS: KBD: unsupported int 16h function 03
00:06:48.374 Display::handleDisplayResize(): uScreenId = 0, pvVRAM=0000000000000000 w=720 h=400 bpp=0 cbLine=0x0
00:06:50.541 PIT: mode=2 count=0x12a5 (4773) - 249.98 Hz (ch=0)
00:06:50.668 PATM: patmR3RefreshPatch: succeeded to refresh patch at c031c3b0 
00:06:50.673 PATM: patmR3RefreshPatch: succeeded to refresh patch at c0108850 
00:06:50.706 PATM: patmR3RefreshPatch: succeeded to refresh patch at c01053f0 
00:07:15.698 Changing the VM state from 'RUNNING' to 'SUSPENDED'.
00:07:17.235 Console::powerDown(): a request to power off the VM has been issued (mMachineState=5, InUninit=0)
00:07:17.236 vboxClipboardDestroy: shutting down host clipboard
00:07:17.241 vboxClipboardThread: clipboard thread terminated successfully with return code VINF_SUCCESS
00:07:17.246 ****************** Guest state at power off ******************

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[TerryE]

This is a normal system cycle from a VBox point of view. Check the MD5 of your media. Also try copying it to and ISO image. I've had problems before downloading Ubuntu media. I always use bitTorrent now -- slower (thanks to my ISPs shaping) but more reliable.

[trick17]

Nope, I already checked the md5 hash, it is okay.
As I sead, I have this experience with different linux versions, it is unlikly that they
are all corrupt.

I also tried to disable the hardware driver from ati, with no effect.

Any ideas?

[trick17]

solved

After I removed the "quit" parameter from the kernel parameters, I saw that the reason
was the IO APIC - after activating it everything worked