Win2K no longer boots

[lmh]

I've had the same Windows 2000 (Win2K) image for a few years now, but now in the second boot screen (the first is the text-only), it slowly paints downward in green, then slowly paints upward with the boot screen image, does its scrolling left-to-right animation, but the progress bar just above the copyright notice never shows progress. It had previously not done the slow paints before, if that matters.

I'd show you a screenshot, but I can't post URLs yet.

Anybody else have this issue? If not, any logs where I can look to see what's up?

Stats:
Host OS: OS X, 10.7.5
Guest OS: Win2K, SP4; 256MB (gave it 512MB, too)

[mpack]

Post a VM log file of an attempted boot. See Minimum information needed for assistance.

[lmh]

Sorry it took so long to get the log file.

I've attempted to attach a zipped log file.

At this point (and you can see by the timestamp)...

Code: Select all

00:00:08.339005 Guest Log: int13_harddisk: function 15, unmapped device for ELDL=81
00:00:14.433443 PIT: mode=2 count=0x2ead (11949) - 99.85 Hz (ch=0)
00:00:14.807032 Display::handleDisplayResize(): uScreenId = 0, pvVRAM=0c768000 w=640 h=480 bpp=0 cbLine=0x140, flags=0x1

...I hit the close/red button, since it was just sitting there.

Please let me know if you need more information.


Thanks,
Lloyd

[socratis]

Lloyd, I took a look at your log file and I couldn't find anything wrong. I then compared your log file to a log file of mine generated by a W2K guest. Again, I couldn't find anything wrong. There were differences, but nothing that wasn't expected. There are things that others might flag, but, based on what you said, the guest was running fine on your system, so I wouldn't call them red flags. On the other hand, I wouldn't call myself an expert log reader.

If this guest was running OK, and now it freezes, I would try the following:

• Think of what might have changed in the guest and, if possible, try to revert it.
• Check if you can boot in safe mode (press F8 at startup). Look for error messages there.
• Attach the vmdk of your W2K to another Windows based VM as a secondary HD and run a "chkdsk".
• Check your hard drive (boot in single-user mode and run "fsck -f").

[mpack]

The only thing that jumps out at me is that 711MB is not a lot of free space in which to run a 512MB+16MB.VRAM guest.

I also wonder if the boot really has failed, or whether it has just hit some network problem and is taking a long time to give up on it.