I finally got it to work but I am not entirely sure how. I think the only change I made between tests was to increase the ram from 1024M to 2048M and the vram from 128M to 256M. I tried moving just the ram back down to 1024M and got the same problem with it hanging during the boot. Version grml32-full-2014.11 doesn't require more than a gig of ram, does it? It could be some kind of weirdness with it being a virtual machine. If I have time, I will repeat the test. Bump it back up to 2048 and see if it hangs. If not, take it back down to 1024 and try it again.
I'm still working on that goal of creating a grml iso with a kernel patched to support hardware speech synthesizers. I don't know if I want to mess around with the boot issue too much. I've got a working vm and I might just move on to trying to get the grml kernel recompiled.
As I write this, it occurs to me that I have an old PC with 512M of ram and a bootable grml32-full-14-11 thumb drive. I can probably just try it on that. It'd take me 5 minutes maybe.
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:
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