Problem with Natty under VirtualBox

[Ric Moore]

On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 15:38 +0300, Donkey Hottie wrote: 
> 24.6.2011 13:43, Donkey Hottie kirjoitti:
> > 23.6.2011 19:18, Donald Talbert kirjoitti:
> >>
> >> Yeah odd... just a shot in a dark. Try turning on 3D Acceleration and
> >> give a good bit of Video RAM. See if that helps? Also just to be sure
> >> you should give it at least 1GB of system RAM just for testing to rule
> >> out any issue with memory.
> >>
> >> On Google quite a few people have problems with Ubuntu 11.04 and Virtual
> >> Box... Some say to select classic mode at the login screen so unity
> >> doesn't try to run.
> >>
> >>
> > 
> > Turned on 3D. Nothing changed.
> 
> Actually, something changed, Unity came up! I had never seen it before.
> It is different, but it works.
> 
> But still, only after several resets to get it to boot.

Does bios come up at boot? See your harddrive listed every time? My SATA
connector is flaky at times. I keep promising myself that I'm going to
take a soldering gun to it... but it sounds almost more like a hardware
problem. Heh, give it a swift kick and see if that fixes it. If it does,
I'd sure poke around in the innards. A flaky power supply would act like
that. Ric


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