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Bug 254770

Summary: Live CD 2008.0 i686 fails to boot under MS Virtual PC 2007 sp1
Product: Gentoo Release Media Reporter: Eric Giblock <eric.giblock>
Component: LiveCD/DVDAssignee: Gentoo Release Team <releng>
Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX    
Severity: normal CC: jer
Priority: High    
Version: 2008.0   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description Eric Giblock 2009-01-13 02:45:45 UTC
when installing using the live cd 2008.0 i686 iso i.   
the first boot option would just freeze on a black screen.
when selecting gentoo --nofb i get the following:

BUG: Int 6: CR2 00000000
.......

blah stuff

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot virtual pc 2007 with iso mounted 
2. options, select the second boot option.
3. see error.
Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-01-14 15:07:48 UTC
I wonder what kind of framebuffer/console devices VirtualPC presents to the OS.
Comment 2 Eric Giblock 2009-01-14 15:13:36 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> I wonder what kind of framebuffer/console devices VirtualPC presents to the OS.

i now in the past, to get other distros, i've had to do the following cause of video issues:

ubunu kernel command add:  "vga=791 noreplace-paravirt"
OpenSUSE kernel command add: "noreplace-paravirt i8042.noloop clock=pit" 
Fedora10 kernel command add: "noreplace-paravirt vga=0×32D clocksource=pit psmouse.proto=imps nohz=off"

those are from http://pirate-king.com/episode/3509 
as i know not what i am doing.  just messing around with the stuff.


Comment 3 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-01-14 20:34:16 UTC
We don't support booting the media under virtualized environments, especially one that's apparently as screwed up as VirtualPC. If there's an *easy* fix we can apply, we will. However, if other distros have problems too, there's not much we can do.