CRUX 2.5 CD-ROM fails to boot

[Jelle Geerts]

When booting the CRUX 2.5 ISO, it stops at "Loading modules... IDE" and VirtualBox crashes. The bug occurs on Windows and Linux hosts for me.

When booting the CD-ROM with "CRUX noide" it boots successfully.

As a side node, the CRUX 2.5 ISO works fine with QEMU and also on real hardware.

[Frank Mehnert]

Could you add the VBox.log file of such a crashing session?

[Jelle Geerts]

log file of the crash

[Jelle Geerts]

log file of a boot with the "CRUX noide" option

[Petr Kadlec]

This still crashes VBox 2.2.2 r46594

[Petr Kadlec]

log from VirtualBox 2.2.2

[Jelle Geerts]

It now also happens with the newest Arch Linux (i.e. with the latest updates installed), right after it says "Loading udev..." while booting.

[Frank Mehnert]

Actually this is a duplicate of #2696. The CD boots fine with VT-x/AMD-V enabled. Mormegil, you have a Pentium D which should be capable of VT-x. You should check your BIOS and enable VT-x there. bughunter, I fear there is nothing you can do so far as you AMD CPU doesn't have AMD-V support. We are aware of that bug and are working on a fix.

[Jelle Geerts]

Thanks :)

BTW: For other users experiencing this bug with an Arch Linux guest, there is a simple work-around: the 2009.02 Arch ISO does boot, so if you boot from that, and then chroot into your installation, you can use your Arch Linux system.

(chroot can be done like this for example: mount /dev/sdaX /mnt && mount /dev/sdaY /mnt/boot && mount /dev/sdaZ /mnt/home && mount -t proc /proc /mnt/proc && mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev && chroot /mnt /bin/bash)