raymac46 Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 Mageia has been one of my favorite distros since Bruno introduced me to Mandriva (its parent) back in the day. I was interested when Mageia 7 beta came out recently so I installed it in VirtualBox. Unfortunately it doesn't work. After a reboot I got no graphics, just a >grub prompt. Reinstalling grub didn't do anything. So I fell back to Mageia 6.1 and it ran fine in VBox off the ISO. After installation it still worked but when I did a package upgrade and rebooted I just got a black screen. Based on my VBox experience I have to conclude that Mageia right now is not ready for prime time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedon James Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 I've never used Mageia, but screenshots, website, etc... lead me to believe its a VERY polished distro. Based on your experience, sounds like either the graphics stack got updated, or a new kernel isn't "baked" correctly. Can you boot the updated Mageia with the old kernel? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted December 11, 2018 Author Share Posted December 11, 2018 Did not try a reboot with the old kernel. Generally if a distro gives me problems in VBox I just junk it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted December 11, 2018 Author Share Posted December 11, 2018 (edited) Reinstalled Mageia 6 in VBox. After kernel got updated to 4.14.78, X would not start although I could log in at TTY. Mageia boots fine with kernel 4.14.70. Posting from it now. So it looks like a kernel and graphics problem. Edited December 11, 2018 by raymac46 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted December 11, 2018 Author Share Posted December 11, 2018 BTW I agree with HJ that Mageia is quite a polished distro when it's installed on the rails. Their implementation of Plasma is one of the best I've seen. My comments are based on how it behaves in VirtualBox, where it has some nice features like longtime support for the guest additions but has some nasty glitches as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted December 23, 2018 Author Share Posted December 23, 2018 Mageia has now updated its kernel to 4.14.89 and the problems in VirtualBox are fixed. Posting now with the latest kernel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlangdn Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 Try un-mounting the iso in VBox, then boot Mageia. I had a similar problem and that's what fixed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted December 24, 2018 Author Share Posted December 24, 2018 I was running off the virtual hard drive before updating. No ISO in the virtual optical drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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