Kernel Panic on Virtual Box Installation- it's driving me NUTS.
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Kernel Panic on Virtual Box Installation- it's driving me NUTS.
I've been trying to install slackware 13.37 on to virtual box for days now with no success. At first I thought it was just not compatible with the 64-bit, so I switched over to 32-bit. I was getting a little further, but I keep getting the error "Kernel Panic- not syncing: attempting to kill the idle task". If anyone has any suggestions, they'd be greatly appreciated.
My hardware virtualization is on, I run Win64, but I've tried installs on both Slackware 64-bit and 32-bit. The 32-bit will initialize, but gets the kernel error. The 64-bit wont do anything at all.
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The error comes up about 1 minute into attempting to boot from the disk.
At this point, I'd say it probably has something to do with the way you've configured the drives in the settings menu. Maybe it's set to AHCI and your PC doesn't like that for whatever reason. Usually ide is the most compatible.
I would allocate more system memory if you have the ability to do so. 256MB isn't much but you're running a 64-bit system. 64-bit programs have a larger memory footprint too, so it'll actually hurt the system to run with that amount. I'd say if you can support it go with 1024MB (1 GB) of RAM minimum and tack on at least 16~64MB of video RAM as well so the framebuffer doesn't get too abused.
Make sure you also have enough swap partition space and have the hard drive sized out fully BEFORE installation.
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