[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] I'm having a problem with

Michael Meskes meskes at debian.org
Fri Aug 29 17:16:15 UTC 2008


On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:45:48AM -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote:
> linux-image-2.6.25-2-686 .  Recently the new linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 has 
> made its way into testing.  I have been having a hard time getting this 
> kernel to boot in virtualbox.  I'm not really sure if the problem is with 

Yes, this is a known problem. Upstream is looking into it.

> virtualbox or with the kernel.  I'm posting this email here in hopes that 
> somebody here will know where the problem resides, and help direct me on who 

Unfortunately no, neither we do, not upstream does. Actually there is a
discussion on the kernel mailing list about exactly this going on atm too.

> to talk to in order to get it fixed.  Another reason for posting here, is 
> that I have screenshots, and log files that might help determine what's going 
> on.  If the problem is the kernel, I'm hoping that your experience with 
> reading the virtualbox logs will help narrow down the problem, and help me 
> make a better report of this to the kernel maintainers.
> ...

Upstream is reading here as well, so sending more info is always a good idea. 



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