On Fri, 13 May 2016 08:52:42 -0400, Fsmithred wrote: > To boot the i386 iso in virtualbox, you need to go into the settings for > System, Processor, and check the box for "Enable PAE/NX". I just did it, and > it works great.
That makes sense. As I wrote, it was just a very quick check using default presets. Didn't go as far as configure anything at all. Thanks for the heads up! Regards Urban > One thing I had to do was hit TAB at the boot menu and change the vga setting > to vga=788 so it would fit on this small laptop screen (1280x800). > The truncated items in the boot menu can be fixed by changing some of the > settings in the isolinux config files. I don't remember which ones, and I > generally do it by trial and error. If you comment out the rsync line that > copies the system in refractasnapshot, you'll end up with an iso that just > has the boot menu. It's a much faster way to test. (Or, you could just > shorten the menu entries.) > > -fsr (aka .fsr) > > > On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Irrwahn <irrw...@freenet.de > <mailto:irrw...@freenet.de>> wrote: > > On Fri, 13 May 2016 12:28:24 +0100, Katolaz wrote: > > Dear Devuaners, > > > > I have worked a bit more on the unofficial minimal images of Devuan > > Beta. I have tried to incorporate all the comments I received, except > > those which would have resulted in a substantial increase of the > > image footprint. > > > > The updated stuff can be foud at: > > > > http://devuan.kalos.mine.nu > > > > We now have both amd64 and i386 images, and I have also included some > > info to run the images on qemu. If you happen to use those images > > successfully on another virtual machine environment, just let me know > > how you did and I can update the webpage with the relevant info. > <snip> > > Hi Katolaz, > > I did a *very quick* check of your live images on VirtualBox. Both > amd64 and i386 versions boot fine on a diskless VM created with the > "Debian (64-bit)" preset. I could log in, ping a machine on the > internet and perform a clean shutdown. > > However, when I tried the i386 image on a VM created with the > "Debian (32-bit)" preset, I got the following error message right > after hitting enter on the boot menu screen: > +------------------------------------------------------ > | This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU: > | pae > | Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU. > +------------------------------------------------------ > > One minor cosmetic quibble for all cases: The boot menu looked > truncated. E.g., what presumably should read "(default)" read just > "(defa" instead. > > HTH, HAND > Urban > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org <mailto:Dng@lists.dyne.org> > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > > _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
