Re: New install - boot, 'startx', freeze.

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 1:15 AM, Mark Filipak <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 03/23/2015 10:35 PM, Lucas C. Villa Real wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Mark Filipak
> > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> wrote:
> >
> >     Hello,
> >
> >     I'm so happy to be here. Gobo is just what I've been looking for...
> at
> >     least, I hope it is.
> >
> >     I installed Gobo into a virtual machine (VM). Bootstrap leaves me at
> a
> >     terminal command line. From my experience with the live CD, I assume
> I
> >     have to submit 'startx', so I do, I wind up looking at a dark gray
> >     window with nothing in it except a mouse pointer at its center. The
> >     mouse doesn't work. To close the window, I have to abort using
> >     VirtualBox's menu (equivalent to turning the power OFF).
> >
> >     Any suggestions?
> >
> >     Thank You.
> >
> >     - Mark.
> >
> >
> > Greetings, Mark,
> >
> > The LiveCD has a very simple detection for VM environments, and it could
> > be the case that its not correctly catching VirtualBox.
> > Could you let me know the output of the following command once you boot
> > into the command line?
> >
> > $ cat /System/Kernel/Status/ide/*/model
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Lucas
>
> Hello Lucas,
>
> Thank you. Here's the result:
>
> zsh: no matches found: /System/Kernel/Status/ide/*/model
>


Ah, so the tricks we're using in the LiveCD are indeed outdated. But
there's a workaround which hopefully will work for you.
At some point during the boot process (near the end) you will read the
following message:

    "Starting X11 detection (<esc> to skip)"

Just press ESC at that point. Then, once you are in the command line, type
'startx' with fingers crossed.

Good luck!
Lucas

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