Cannot start Oracle Enterprise Linux on Virtualbox

[sunnynagra]

Hello,

I have installed the latest version of virtualbox and am trying to install Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 Update 8 as a guest OS. It says that it has been successfully installed and when I try to reboot, it doesn't get any further than trying to uncompress the Kernel and comes up with the attached messages.

Does anyone know what is going wrong here and how to resolve it?

Many Thanks

Sunny

[sej7278]

RedHat Enterprise Linux 4u8 works fine as does CentOS 4.8; must be something Oracle broke with their odd kernel tweaks to the RHEL codebase.

[sunnynagra]

Yes I have found that I have to choose from 4 different Kernels to boot up from. Only thing is I can boot from 3 of them and I don't know which one is the correct one to boot from??

Any Ideas?

[wcoekaer]

it likely is the hugemem kernel. did you actually try to boot with that kernel on centos/rhel as well - or there did you boot the kernel that doesn't contain -hugemem. seems to me like you want to boot just the .el or -smp.el kernel there's no need to boot in the hugemem kernel at all. I suggest if you have multiple virtual cpus to boot -smp otherwise the one just saying .el

sej7278 - respectfully - don't make such an uninformed claim unless you actually pulled the kernel and looked at the applied patches if any.

[sej7278]

sej7278 - respectfully - don't make such an uninformed claim unless you actually pulled the kernel and looked at the applied patches if any.

they're not uninformed claims thank you very much, i run OEL at work and have used the oracle database for years and dissected the modifications oracle make to the redhat kernel (at runtime in that case) and they're not pretty, to the degree where they can prevent further updates from working or even os booting.

that said, i got oel 5.3 working just fine with virtualbox, as well as centos 4.8/5.4 and rhel 5.0/6beta1 so i expect its a settings/user error not virtualbox or even oel, probably not the hugemen kernel but a xen kernel.