Neither boot option, noudev or that longer one you mentioned, made any difference. I can try the daily image but I think the problem is probably with my virtual machine. I created it at the command line with vboxmanage commands and it probably just isn't quite right.

I might go back to vmware player. At least I had a working vm with vmware player. But I don't like that there's no debian package for it. And even with it's limitations, I do really like this screenshot feature in virtualbox. I've been able to tell that my vm is hung by taking a screen shot and running tesseract on the image.

On 04/17/2015 03:36 AM, Michael Prokop wrote:
Hi,

the message says: 'If your system hangs now, disable udev with
bootoption "noudev"'

Does adding boot option mgag200.modeset=0 help?

If this doesn't help either can you please test with a daily ISO
(from http://daily.grml.org/)?

As a last resort you can use the noudev boot option, but then plenty
of drivers won't be available in the running system. So it would be
interesting to identify why it fails for you.

regards,
-mika-

* John G. Heim [Thu Apr 16, 2015 at 10:46:26PM -0500]:

Here is a link to the image I captured from the virtual machine:
http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/grml/grml1.png


      

        
There must be some way to get a better image from a screen shot.
That's a virtualbox question though.
On 04/16/2015 10:07 PM, John G. Heim wrote:


        

          
I am trying to create a grml virtualbox virtual machine. My problem
is that it hangs during the boot from the live iso image. I'm blind
so I can't see the screen but I took a screen shot and ran an ocr
on it.  The last 2 lines say this:


        

      

      

      

        

          
a it ganr sgsten hangs nan, disahie udeu uith buutuptiun "nuudeu .
a starting the hutplug euents dispatcher: udeud.


        

      

      

      

        

          
When grml is booting, at some point it says something like, "If
your system hangs now disable something or other". I am thinking
that is what is happening. But the ocr is so bad I don't know what
to disable. Can somebody tell me what that whole message says?


        

      

      

      

        

          
I created the vm with vboxmanage at the command line. So there
might be something wrong with the vm itself. Here is the output


        

        
>from showvminfo if it helps:


      

      

      

        

          
Name:            grml
Groups:          /
Guest OS:        Debian (32 bit)
UUID:            0c3d9b10-476c-4d44-984c-672223bd593d
Config file:     /home/john/VirtualBox VMs/grml/grml.vbox
Snapshot folder: /home/john/VirtualBox VMs/grml/Snapshots
Log folder:      /home/john/VirtualBox VMs/grml/Logs
Hardware UUID:   0c3d9b10-476c-4d44-984c-672223bd593d
Memory size:     1024MB
Page Fusion:     off
VRAM size:       128MB
CPU exec cap:    100%
HPET:            off
Chipset:         piix3
Firmware:        BIOS
Number of CPUs:  1
PAE:             on
Long Mode:       off
Synthetic CPU:   off
CPUID overrides: None
Boot menu mode:  message and menu
Boot Device (1): DVD
Boot Device (2): HardDisk
Boot Device (3): Not Assigned
Boot Device (4): Not Assigned
ACPI:            on
IOAPIC:          on
Time offset:     0ms
RTC:             local time
Hardw. virt.ext: on
Nested Paging:   on
Large Pages:     off
VT-x VPID:       on
VT-x unr. exec.: on
State:           running (since 2015-04-17T02:38:37.290000000)
Monitor count:   1
3D Acceleration: off
2D Video Acceleration: off
Teleporter Enabled: off
Teleporter Port: 0
Teleporter Address:
Teleporter Password:
Tracing Enabled: off
Allow Tracing to Access VM: off
Tracing Configuration:
Autostart Enabled: off
Autostart Delay: 0
Default Frontend:
Storage Controller Name (0):            SATA Controller
Storage Controller Type (0):            IntelAhci
Storage Controller Instance Number (0): 0
Storage Controller Max Port Count (0):  30
Storage Controller Port Count (0):      30
Storage Controller Bootable (0):        on
Storage Controller Name (1):            IDE Controller
Storage Controller Type (1):            PIIX4
Storage Controller Instance Number (1): 0
Storage Controller Max Port Count (1):  2
Storage Controller Port Count (1):      2
Storage Controller Bootable (1):        on
SATA Controller (0, 0): /home/john/grml.vdi (UUID:
660b5876-7d75-4c46-93a1-53b448acbfb5)
IDE Controller (0, 0): /home/john/Downloads/grml32-full_2014.11.iso
(UUID: eef9e9b9-0bd1-44c9-b94b-d07b190d09c6)
NIC 1:           MAC: 0800273EB948, Attachment: Bridged Interface
'eth0', Cable connected: on, Trace: off (file: none), Type:
82540EM, Reported speed: 0 Mbps, Boot priority: 0, Promisc Policy:
deny, Bandwidth group: none
NIC 2:           disabled
NIC 3:           disabled
NIC 4:           disabled
NIC 5:           disabled
NIC 6:           disabled
NIC 7:           disabled
NIC 8:           disabled
Pointing Device: PS/2 Mouse
Keyboard Device: PS/2 Keyboard
UART 1:          disabled
UART 2:          disabled
LPT 1:           disabled
LPT 2:           disabled
Audio:           enabled (Driver: ALSA, Controller: SB16)
Clipboard Mode:  disabled
Drag'n'drop Mode: disabled
Session type:    GUI/Qt
Video mode:      1024x768x16 at 0,0
VRDE:            disabled
USB:             disabled
EHCI:            disabled


        

      

      

      

        

          
USB Device Filters:


        

      

      

      

        

          
<none>


        

      

      

      

        

          
Available remote USB devices:


        

      

      

      

        

          
<none>


        

      

      

      

        

          
Currently Attached USB Devices:


        

      

      

      

        

          
<none>


        

      

      

      

        

          
Bandwidth groups:  <none>


        

      

      

      

        

          
Shared folders:  <none>


        

      

      

      

        

          
VRDE Connection:    not active
Clients so far:     0


        

      

      

      

        

          
Video capturing:    not active
Capture screens:    0
Capture file:       /home/john/VirtualBox VMs/grml/grml.webm
Capture dimensions: 1024x768
Capture rate:       512 kbps
Capture FPS:        25


        

      

      

      

        

          
Guest:


        

      

      

      

        

          
Configured memory balloon size:      0 MB
OS type:                             Debian
Additions run level:                 0


        

      

      

      

        

          
Guest Facilities:


        

      

      

      

        

          
No active facilities.
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