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.
I wonder what kind of framebuffer/console devices VirtualPC presents to the OS.
(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.
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.