Edubuntu 9.10 AMD64 doesn't boot in VBox?

[Jordan Erickson]

Ok - my bad, sorry for the confusion.. it's not specific to Edubuntu.
I'm doing some updates right now but whenever the VM boots up at all the
system hard-locks. Only tried "Ubuntu 64-bit" and "Linux 64-bit" so far,
will try regular dists too. I have the feeling it's got something to do
with initializing my DVD drive. It's weird that this is only with new
VMs, existing VMs boot up just fine (which I actually created under
9.04).. Suspecting maybe a VBox bug (using 3.0.8-dfsg-1ubuntu1). Very
similar symptoms to here:
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=19780&start=0 -
although the very first time I tried, it actually got to the grub menu
and crashed after that. :/ I'll keep poking around. Thanks for the help!

- Jordan



Jordan Erickson wrote:
> Jonathan Carter wrote:
>> Hi Jordan
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Jordan Erickson
>> <jerickson at logicalnetworking.net> wrote:
>>> Ok, so when I try booting either from a burned DVD image or an ISO in
>>> VBox, it will actually hard-lock my system after going to a black screen
>>> (after hitting "Install Edubuntu"). I'm thinking maybe it's a bug in
>>> VBox, but other OSes I've installed so far (Ubuntu, WinXP..) have been
>>> working fine. I dunno, I booted directly to the DVD and it seems to work
>>> but when I did that, I did the Live session option (didn't want to
>>> install it..I can always just see if it actually gets to anything though)..
>> When you installed Ubuntu was it also the 64 bit version?
> 
> Yep!
> 
> 
>> The 64bit install was tested for alpha2, so we know it works at least outside of
>> virtualbox. Could you do a checksum of your disc and check that it
>> matches the download location? Just to eliminate that something went
>> wrong with the download.
> 
> Yep, just verified the ISO:
> 
> 5fb95feedf2f58f107e2856d86908976
> (see http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/9.10/release/MD5SUMS
> 
> Good t/s steps.. I'm going to try it again here in a sec, just wanted to
> shoot the e-mail off before I crash my box again ;)
> 
> 
> - Jordan
>