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zwind

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Registered: 2016-11-01

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Stuck at loading initial ramdisk (i686) on VirtualBox

kernel : linux 4.8.4-1
grub 1:2.02.beta3-4
mkinitcpio : 21

When I finished the install guide, and reboot it.

It stuck at "loading initial ramdisk".

This is my installation procedure as shown.
https://srv08.bitsend.jp/download/3a10b … 92846.html

And I downloaded the image (VirtualBox (VDI) 32bit) which was build by other person, it worked fine.
http://www.osboxes.org/arch-linux/

But if I run "pacman -Syu" and reboot, it seems get the same result.

Trilby

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Re: Stuck at loading initial ramdisk (i686) on VirtualBox

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Vi … nux_guests

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zwind

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Re: Stuck at loading initial ramdisk (i686) on VirtualBox

Thanks a lot

I tried it, but it didn't work.

Maybe this is the same thing, like
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/51506

Trilby

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Re: Stuck at loading initial ramdisk (i686) on VirtualBox

What exactly did you try.  Please describe the steps you took.  The installation proceedure you provided in the first post was missing several steps for virtualbox - it's still not clear if you have completed those.

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zwind

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Re: Stuck at loading initial ramdisk (i686) on VirtualBox

Three computer

1. laptop : Lenovo ThinkPad X230 WIN7x64

2. laptop : Asus F3JC WIN7x32

3. desktop : CPU AMD A4 5300 3.4GHz, graphic card WIN7x64

VirtualBox setting

version: 5.1.8
sata: 8G
ram: 512MB
linux 32bit & 64bit

try

1. different computer
   A : i686 NG, x86_64 OK
   B : i686 NG
   C : i686 NG

   the simplest step I try is just for boot

   fdisk /dev/sda 
       n -> default -> default -> default -> default 
       a -> p -> w
       
   mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1
   mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
   
   pacstrap /mnt base
   genfstab -U -p /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
   
   arch-chroot /mnt
   mkinitcpio -p linux
   pacman -S grub
   grub-install --recheck /dev/sda
   grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
   
   exit
   umount /mnt
   reboot

2. virutalbox image from internet
   http://www.osboxes.org/arch-linux/
   This image from internet boots OK and it's Arch i686 and linux 4.7.0
   Do pacman -Syu to 4.8.5/4.8.6, and boot failed.

3. grub remove quiet
   it doesn't show any log.

Trilby

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Re: Stuck at loading initial ramdisk (i686) on VirtualBox

So ... in other words you didn't follow the link I provided.

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zwind

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Registered: 2016-11-01

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Re: Stuck at loading initial ramdisk (i686) on VirtualBox

God!! My poor English.
Sorry, I misunderstand it.

this is my step

arch-chroot /mnt

pacman -S virtualbox-guest-utils-nox
    2 virtualbox-guest-modules-arch

modprobe -a vboxguest vboxsf vboxvideo
# vboxguest  not found
# vboxsf not found
# vboxvideonot found

VBoxClient --clipboard --draganddrop --seamless --display --checkhostversion
# VBoxClient not found

It still stucks. Do I miss some steps?

Trilby

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Re: Stuck at loading initial ramdisk (i686) on VirtualBox

No problem, but I think there is still some confusion.  I was linking to the part of the page saying "Installation in EFI mode" because in your first post, you clearly did and EFI install.  That section of the wiki includes notes on configuring the virtualbox host program starting with "If you want to install Arch Linux in EFI mode inside VirtualBox, in the settings of the virtual machine, choose System item from the panel on the left and Motherboard tab from the right panel, and ..."

It's not clear whether you have followed that section.

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zwind

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Re: Stuck at loading initial ramdisk (i686) on VirtualBox

I check it again. In my virualbox setting, the EFI is uncheck.

Then I check the partition table, and it's msdos.

You can see the picture below the "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt " in the "install.pdf" in the link of my first post.

So I ignore the "Installation in EFI mode" of the page.

I don't know what you mean about the EFI installation.

Trilby

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Re: Stuck at loading initial ramdisk (i686) on VirtualBox

Sorry I thought you had done an efi install as the text I got out of your text/image pdf including checking efi vars.

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isaac_le

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Registered: 2016-11-04

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Re: Stuck at loading initial ramdisk (i686) on VirtualBox

Hi,
I have a same stuck problem, I use virtualbox on windows 10 version so the EFI mode can't be worked. I use BIOS mode for my arch, I try to install the virtualbox-guest-util and do follow the instruction.
here is log I got from console after several try:

# modeprobe -a vboxguest
modprobe: WARNING: Module vboxguest not found in directory /lib/modules/4.7.5-1-ARCH
# uname -a
Linux archiso 4.7.5-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT ... i686 GNU/Linux

I try some help from google and after run:

#depmod 4.7.5-1-ARCH
depmod: ERROR: could not open directory /lib/modules/4.7.5-1-ARCH: no such file or directory
depmod: FATAL ...
#cd /lib/modules
#ls
4.8.6-1-ARCH extramodules-4.8-ARCH
#depmod 4.8.6-1-ARCH

modprobe is still the same error.
And I checked the dir /lib/modules/
I find there are two dir: 4.8.6-1-ARCH and extramodules4.8-ARCH
please help me check this issue.

p/s: I still don't know how to get the console log out from virtualbox guest arch, i'm on arch-chroot.

Scimmia

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Re: Stuck at loading initial ramdisk (i686) on VirtualBox

You need to reboot after kernel upgrades