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StevenC21

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Registered: 2018-09-17

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Virtualbox Black Screen on ISO Boot (Arch Linux Current) [Solved]

Hello all. I am attempting to run a secondary Arch Linux VM from within my current Arch Install. My copy of Virtualbox is from the Arch Repos, and it has the extension pack. However, when I attempt to boot from the Live ISO (its the most recent one, and I downloaded it twice to ensure that there was no corruption), it provides the EFI menu, and when I select the option to boot Arch, it gives a black screen, and nothing else. It persists in this state indefinitely.

Virtualbox is using EFI and no 3D acceleration for the VM.

Update: It boots successfully if I switch to Virtualbox's BIOS mode, but I want EFI, since that is the only partitioning scheme I am familiar with.

Update 2: It will boot other Distributions live ISOs, including Manjaro Linux, so this is a very Arch Specific issue.

Last edited by StevenC21 (2018-11-25 21:34:06)

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Re: Virtualbox Black Screen on ISO Boot (Arch Linux Current) [Solved]

You have read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Vi … n_EFI_mode and waited atleast 2 minutes ?

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StevenC21

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Re: Virtualbox Black Screen on ISO Boot (Arch Linux Current) [Solved]

I am very sorry, I did not wait 2 minutes. Its not even that I am a super impatient person, but only that I didnt realize that it could take so long to show startup info. Yes, it booted properly after waiting 2 minutes. I am very sorry.

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Re: Virtualbox Black Screen on ISO Boot (Arch Linux Current) [Solved]

Please remember to mark your thread as [Solved] by editing your first post and prepending it to the title.

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