Old RedHat (7.3, year 2002) version not installing

[lpob]

Hi,

I am running Ubuntu 10.10, on an Dell Optiplex755, with Virtualbox, 3.2.10 r66523. The machine has a SATA drive where Ubuntu is installed. Then a partition is created for the virtual machine on an IDE drive. Other OS's such as Ubuntu 10.x and OpenSolaris works fine with this setup.

I have a need to run an old RedHat 7.3 (kernel 2.4.18-3) from 2002 under virtualbox. The kernel is has add-ons and I don't have the source code for it.
When I try to install it I get the following message in the log-file:

Guest Log: BIOS: int13_harddisk: function 15, unmapped device for ELDL-81

At the same time a pop-up window give the following message, then the installation hangs:

Could not allocate requested partitions. Partitioning failed: Could not allocate partitions. Press OK to reboot your system.

ANY help to help me to understand what goes wrong, and possibly try to fix it would be greatly appreciated.

Regards and thanks,
Lpob

[stefan.becker]

Please post the exact and full guest configuration.

[lpob]

Hi,

I solved the problem with this myself but unfortunately X windows doesn't work. RedHat 7.3 only run in character mode. The issue listed in the /var/logs/XFree.0.log file in RedHat running in VirtualBox states that it is loading the driver /usr/X11R6/lib/i810_drv.so correctly but then reports "Fatal error no screen found".

i have run the installation of VboxGuestAdditions, the VBoxLinuxAdditions and vboxadd-x11.sh. Could anyone help me understand what the problem might be, as the reason I nedd to run this old RedHat version is to run a legacy-program relying on X11.

Thanks in advance for any help,
lpob.

[stefan.becker]

The guest additions are to knew and Redhat is to old.

Try to use the VESA driver in the XF86Config file (or xorg.conf?).

[Technologov]

You can run X11 without having X11 display. Use vncserver or Xnest, and redirect it to X11 that is installed on your host.
Obviously those tools require more Linux knowledge, but possible to do.

Old Linuxes dislike VirtualBox VESA chip (no VESA driver), and LinuxAdditions won't compile/modprobe on kernels older than 2.4.21.

-Technologov