Debian Booting Aborted

[paoloim]

hey folks,

since i am new to virtualbox i'll have to ask which causes could there be for aborting the booting of my debian VM?
So why?
Are there .log files where I can check what went wrong?

I tried to restore to an earlier Snapshot, but after restoring it aborts immediately.
Just after it says: "Booting the kernel" and then "Loading, please wait..." it abort the booting.

Can you help me?
Thx!

Sincely, IM

[fixedwheel]

Are there .log files where I can check what went wrong?

VBox logs: from the VBox main window -> "Machine" -> "Show Logs"

Just after it says: "Booting the kernel" and then "Loading, please wait..." it abort the booting.

when the Grub menu appears hit the space bar to stop the counter and "e" to edit the kernel entry: remove the quiet kernel parm to see what happens

[paoloim]

ok i did exactly as described and yes i can see more information but after some lines after "Loading, please wait..." the VM Window disappeares and i can't do anything about it.

i could start and capture the screen but that doesn't seem the way to do it.

greets, IM

[fixedwheel]

but after some lines after "Loading, please wait..." the VM Window disappeares

sorry... just sent my crystal ball to repair service, so i guess you should post the VBox log (as attachment)

[paoloim]

I somehow had 3 logs, but i think you need the first one. nevertheless i uploaded all 3.

greets

[fixedwheel]

nevertheless i uploaded all 3.

good idea, i found something interesting:
VBox.log

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00:00:01.956 Host RAM: 4096MB RAM, available: 593MB

you give 512M to the guest, its a little short but not the failing reason

VBox.log.1

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00:00:00.939 Host RAM: 4096MB RAM, available: 69MB

too short: the log ends before the others do

VBox.log.2

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00:00:00.736 Host RAM: 4096MB RAM, available: 1114MB

VBox.log.3 similar to .2
available RAM is ok


all but the VBox.log.1 end with:

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00:00:15.280 OHCI: Software reset
00:00:15.280 OHCI: USB Operational

did you install the "Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack" for USB support?

a workaround may be to disable USB

and:

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00:00:00.743 VirtualBox 4.0.0 r69151 darwin.x86 (Dec 22 2010 15:53:38) release log

4.0.2 is released for some time already, maybe its a bug thats fixed now: could you update?

[paoloim]

haha, thank you mate te update solved it all
i really appreciate your help

thank you!

greets, joseph

EDIT: And i also set the ram to 1024 KB for better performance