[SOLVED] VM crash after using pacstrap

ultimatr · 2021-03-17 18:57:53

Hello,

I created a virtual machine in oracle with 31 gb of storage.
I booted the VM normally, loaded into the iso successfully and made two partitions:

https://ibb.co/PMNLbyD

After, I mounted the root partition under /mnt
mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
Made a boot directory
mkdir /mnt/boot
Then mounted the EFI System partition
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot/

Now I execute pacstrap,
pacstrap -i /mnt base linux linux-firmware vim

It connects and downloads, until it gets to:

linux-firmware

Then the installation freezes and the VM crashes.

I've retried this a bunch of times with larger storage and different sized partitions. Same result in the end.
If someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong, I'd appreciate it!

Last edited by ultimatr (2021-03-18 02:18:12)

ultimatr · 2021-03-17 19:19:11

I removed all files in /mnt and retried pacstrap

As per usual it stopped at 86% while installing linux-firmware

This is the status after my VM crashed and my screen goes black.
https://ibb.co/g72Sqwc

Slithery · 2021-03-17 19:33:05

ultimatr wrote:

I created a virtual machine in oracle

What does this mean? Are you talking about VirtualBox or some other hypervisor?
What's the host OS?

ultimatr · 2021-03-17 19:37:19

Slithery wrote:

Are you talking about VirtualBox or some other hypervisor?

Oracle VM VirtualBox

Slithery wrote:

What's the host OS?

Windows 10 Home

sorry abt that

ultimatr · 2021-03-17 19:48:57

Okay somehow got pacstrap to complete.
Not sure why, but this time it worked. Just had to remove everything in /mnt a third time and retry pacstrap.

Disregard I guess

Arch Linux

#1 2021-03-17 18:57:53

[SOLVED] VM crash after using pacstrap

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Re: [SOLVED] VM crash after using pacstrap

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Re: [SOLVED] VM crash after using pacstrap

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