https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481354 Summary: Factory doesn't boot in VirtualBox anymore Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: Factory Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Blocker Priority: P5 - None Component: Kernel AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: poeml@novell.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Every Factory image upgraded yesterday or the day before ceased to work for me, and the current images out there fail in the same way. They all stop with a black screen at the time where the kernel should be loading (or starting to be loaded maybe). VirtualBox aborts and says "aborted". It doesn't seem to be a quirk in VirtualBox, and not a bug in the handling of the snapshots I had accumulated (which was my first suspicion). It didn't change anything to start with a fresh harddisk without snapshots. Other images I have around (FreeBSD, Ubuntu, ArchLinux, 11.1) work. I played with VirtualBox config options, to no avail. Reinstalling the bootloader didn't help. I booted a rescue system, recreated the initial ramdisk, and noticed that mkinitrd includes about 87 modules into the initial ramdisk, which seems weird. (It gives an initrd 13 megs in size, uncompressed). I wondered why the initrd is just a simple gzipped cpio archive, I had expected something fancier, but maybe this is the way things are done today. I later was able to boot the system with an 11.1 kernel, with an initrd created with 11.1 mkinitrd. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.