Virtualbox installation of RHEL5

[Lisa Kachold]

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Eric Cope <eric.cope at gmail.com> wrote:

> I enabled IO_APIC and it got past that point of hanging. I'll let you know
> how it goes.
> Eric
>

Oh Sorry Eric, I didn't read the AMD error message carefully enough.

This appears to be a AMD issue and the only way around is by Enabling IO
APIC:

http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=19658


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>
> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Eric Cope <eric.cope at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I tried acpi=off. Attached is the screen shot. Lisa, can you elaborate
>> regarding the VIA processor? This is on a Core 2 Duo machine.
>>
>> thanks,
>> Eric
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 5:21 AM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Eric:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Eric Cope <eric.cope at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello all,
>>>> I am trying to install RHEL5 within a Virtualbox instance on my windows
>>>> pc. It hangs at this line:
>>>>
>>>> NET: Registered protocol family 2
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone successfully installed RHEL5 in Virtualbox? What settings did
>>>> you use?
>>>> I've attached a screen shot of the hanging line.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Eric
>>>>
>>>
>>> Try:
>>>
>>> Under boot:
>>> type: linux acpi=off
>>> enter
>>>
>>> It can also be due to your VIA CPU - which only VirtualBox developers can
>>> help you with:
>>>
>>> http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/370
>>>
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