[ale] botched install of Virtual Box

Jim Philips briarpatch.jim at earthlink.net
Sat Mar 10 09:42:21 EST 2007


On Friday 09 March 2007 08:38:48 pm Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 19:35 -0500, Jim Philips wrote:
> > I keep trying to install Virtual Box on my Kubuntu setup with a custom
> > kernel. It gets through the step where it builds the vboxdrv. But I get
> > an error from dmesg:
> >
> > vboxdrv: Trying to deactivate NMI watchdog permanently...
> > vboxdrv: NMI watchdog either active or at least initialized. Please
> > disable the NMI
> > vboxdrv: watchdog by specifying 'nmi_watchdog=0' at kernel command line.
> >
> > I googled and found some really interesting discussions about NMI
> > watchdog on the kernel mailing list (Linus is against it). But I didn't
> > find anything that would tell me what to do about it here. Any ideas?
>
> I don't think you'll have any problems trying it.  Just reboot and
> press the shift key during boot to access the Grub menu.  Press "e" to
> edit the highlighted boot line, on the next screen scroll down to the
> 2nd or 3rd line (should begin with something like
> "kernel /boot/vmlinux..."), press "e" to edit that line and append
>  " nmi_watchdog=0" to the end of it, then press ENTER to accept the
> changes and "b" to continue booting into linux (IIRC). ;-)
>
> If those changes work, then you can make them permanent by
> editing /boot/grub/menu.lst.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> -Jim P.


Thanks. I just edited menu.lst and got through it. Located the manual too! Now 
ReadingTFM!
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