Fedora on Virtualbox error

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Hello, hoping someone can help me, I am trying to install fedora on virtualbox.


When I mount the ISO and boot up the virtual machine gives me an error when I try to boot:

Failed to load ldlinux.c32
 
You haven't giving much details of the host machine or guest(virtual box machine) or version of Fedora but assuming you have used vm's before i would suggest the installation iso might be the problem try download a new iso from the Fedora website.
 
jarredrr00 said:
You haven't giving much details of the host machine or guest(virtual box machine) or version of Fedora but assuming you have used vm's before i would suggest the installation iso might be the problem try download a new iso from the Fedora website.
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Sorry about that, yea I used vm's before, it's the latest fedora workstation iso downloaded from there website last night.


beans100 said:
With what are you mounting the ISO?
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I go into virtual box and select the iso in the virtual dvd and then I boot from dvd
 
I had problems like that before. I find it works better to mount the ISO with something like PowerISO and let Virtualbox boot from the virtual drive.
 
beans100 said:
I had problems like that before. I find it works better to mount the ISO with something like PowerISO and let Virtualbox boot from the virtual drive.
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Okey, this is worth a try, I will do this quickly. Give me one moment then I will report back
 
Let me just add, please god do not install powerISO it's a bunch of bullschit filled with spayware and bloadware and bs. Rather use Deamon tools.

/Rant over

Okey so I installed PowerISO, I then mounted the live CD to "D:" I then went to the vm and told it to use the host's D drive.

I got the same error unfortunately.

Error.jpg
 
Is the following enabled on the VM under the system section?: "I/O APIC" and "PAE/NX"

EDIT: And sorry, I see I use UltraISO, don't know why I said poweriso
 
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beans100 said:
Is the following enabled on the VM under the system section?: "I/O APIC" and "PAE/NX"

EDIT: And sorry, I see I use UltraISO, don't know why I said poweriso
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Hahaha, no biggy :)

Yes I enabled those, and disabled ( to be sure )
 
Long shot....I see your virtual drive is a fedora.VHD, maybe try a, generic linux, with a fixed VDI drive.
 
beans100 said:
Long shot....I see your virtual drive is a fedora.VHD, maybe try a, generic linux, with a fixed VDI drive.
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Tried that now, unfortunately same issue. Problem is, I am at parents place for the long weekend to give them a little piece of their son who they never see, but they have a 2mb/s line so downloading different OSes is difficult so I went with the Fedora iso since it's only 1.2GB compared to the Centos one I wanted.

So I do not really know if it's the virtual machine or ISO, because I only have the one ISO. I am downloading a ova Centos installation now maybe that works, it's very small thou like 584mb ( CentOS 7 Base.ova )
 
I wonder if the Centos 7 Base is the same as minimal

Because then I can do this:

Code: 
1. Install CentOS-7 - Minimal (First entry point in list)
2. yum groupinstall "X Window System"
3. yum install gnome-classic-session gnome-terminal nautilus-open-terminal control-center liberation-mono-fonts
4. unlink /etc/systemd/system/default.target
5. ln -sf /lib/systemd/system/graphical.target /etc/systemd/system/default.target
6. reboot
 
Starting to slowly revert back to windows.

I now get this issue when I want to log onto Centos after I installed the GUI

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Is only fedora and centos based on the red hat stuff?

I noticed Ubuntu based OS's uses different commands
 
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