-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, 2009-08-15 at 11:12 -0400, Rob Owens wrote:
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:26:03AM +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Friday, 2009-08-14 at 23:28 -0400, Rob Owens wrote:
Are you attempting to use the original physical disks, or are you using virtualized disks on the host?
I dd'd the original disk, then ran:
VBoxManage convertdd
to produce a virtualized disk.
I'm not familiar with VB, so I can't comment on that.
By the way, I'm using the open source version of VirtualBox on a Debian host. It's version 1.6.6.
I see that openSUSE 11.0 came with 1.5.6 and 11.1 2.0.6, but there is a recent 3.0.4.
I can get the virtual machine to boot into single user mode, but it freezes after a few minutes.
Have a look at /var/log/boot.msg and /var/log/messages
Nothing gets written to /var/log/messages. boot.msg gets written, but I haven't seen any clues there. I'll look some more.
Maybe it freezes before syslog is started.
Did you try runlevel 3? Single user mode is 1.
I tried runlevel 3, but it freezes at "Starting nfsboot (sm-notify)".
Humm... I think there was an option to boot each service one by one, asking whether run it or not. It can be done via: PROMPT_FOR_CONFIRM="no" in /etc/sysconfig/boot, but I thought there was an option on the grub prompt also. You could use that to bypass nfsboot from starting. Otherwise, perhaps you can try "chkconfig nfsboot off" to disable that service if you can reach a console. Maybe the network is not running. The hardware will surely be different, and configuration probably too.
Try running "top" to see what task ares being executed when it freezes.
I ran top and it froze the system! That might have just been perfect timing, though, because I reset and it again and it worked for a few minutes. Here's what was running when it froze (CPU was at 0%):
init ksoftirqd/0 events/0 kblockd/0 pdflush aio/0 kswapd0 reiserfs/0 kcopyd/0 bash top
All those seem normal to me.
Uptime was 2 minutes. Interesting... I reset and ran top again, and uptime was again 2 minutes when it froze.
It doesn't suggest anything to me :-?
If I boot into runlevel 5, I get an ncurses Yast which says "ACCEPT" and "CANCEL" and shows a big gray box where the menu choices should be. Choosing "ACCEPT" or "CANCEL" locks up the virtual machine.
That could be the video mode :-?
What would I do about that? Change a grub parameter? I tried vga=791 and vga=771
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