Hi all, I'm new to the forums.
I tried to boot Kali Linux 1.0.8 on VirtualBox on a friend's laptop. It freezes at a black screen with a blinking cursor after:
Loading /live/vmlinuz
Loading /live/initrd.img
I've tried it in Live (686-pae) and Live (686-pae failsafe) modes.
Once it is stuck, CPU utilization increases a lot and the laptop's fan goes crazy.
My friend's laptop's CPU specs (from lshw) are:
description: CPU
product: Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU B980 @ 2.40GHz
vendor: Intel Corp.
physical id: 1f
bus info: cpu@0
version: Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU B980 @ 2.40GHz
slot: SOCKET 0
size: 2400MHz
capacity: 3800MHz
width: 64 bits
clock: 100MHz
capabilities: x86-64 fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer xsave lahf_lm arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dtherm cpufreq
configuration: cores=2 enabledcores=2 threads=2
Any help in getting it to work would be appreciated
