Virtualbox installation of RHEL5

[Eric Cope]

No... after you posted the VIA tip, I checked that box as a guess and it
worked... but you beat me to posting the solution.

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>wrote:

> Ah ....
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> So you were just testing us?
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> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Eric Cope <eric.cope at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> That's what it took. Its working flawlessly now!
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>> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>wrote:
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>>> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Eric Cope <eric.cope at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> I enabled IO_APIC and it got past that point of hanging. I'll let you
>>>> know how it goes.
>>>> Eric
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>>> Oh Sorry Eric, I didn't read the AMD error message carefully enough.
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>>> This appears to be a AMD issue and the only way around is by Enabling IO
>>> APIC:
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>>> http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=19658
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>>> Again from the Virtualbox forums!   Ask the correct source and Viola!
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>>>> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Eric Cope <eric.cope at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>> 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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