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[Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/13/2011 02:18 AM, Zoltan Matlak wrote:

> I tried installing alpha2 on virtualbox, it does not work (doesn't
> boot). I usually install it (test it) as a fresh virtual box
> installation before I put it on a disk partition as a stand alone OS.
> 
> I red the list, someone else also mentioned this problem. Is this a
> bad iso? Are you gonna regenerate the alpha2 image soon? What is the
> plan?

It's not exactly a "bad ISO" if it boots on real hardware... so it may
be a bug in virtualbox that is triggered by something unusual in the ISO.

Since I would really like to be able to use Lubuntu ISOs in virtualbox,
I am in the process of learning how to create them in a Ubuntu-like way.
 When (if?) I succeed, I will hopefully be able to track down this issue
further.

When I built a "sort-of-but-not-really" Lubuntu ISO using live-helper,
that ISO *did* boot just fine in virtualbox for me.  But that's not how
Ubuntu does its livecd ISO creation. So, now I should learn about and
play with germinate, and livecd-rootfs, and debian-cd, and ubuntu-cdimage :)

Is there already a LaunchPad bug for this issue?  If not, please do
create one!

Jonathan