On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:28:17PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote:
I have a physical server running SUSE 9.2 (which I cannot upgrade), and I am attempting to move it to a virtual machine using VirtualBox. I have changed grub and fstab to reflect the new hard drive names (hda instead of sda).
I can get the virtual machine to boot into single user mode, but it freezes after a few minutes. 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.
What am I missing? I'm guessing it's a hardware detection problem. I'm pretty experienced with Linux, but I'm new to SUSE. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
-Rob
Thanks again to all who offered advice. I never got this issue worked out. I managed to track down some SuSE 9.1 installation CDs (a boxed set!) and did a fresh install into my virtual machine. That handled the hardware detection problems. Then I rsync'd just about everything except /etc from the original server to the virtual machine. It is not pretty, but it gave me the functionality that I needed. -Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org