It seems you sailed straight past my problem without getting stuck. I noticed you specifically set PAE, I have that set. Also you reduced the memory allocation to 256 MB - I have copied that, and it still doesn't work. The only remaining difference that I can see is that you have VB running under Wi...

Thanks for that. It seems some much smarter people than me have thought about this, without success. My VB is 4.3.6, but I agree with the comment that the VB environment should be completely benign, only being fed with Ubuntu's successfully acquired drivers/streams. My trusty old Puppy-5.2.8 runs in...

Intel D2700MUD dual Atom, 4 GB, running Ubuntu 13.10, running VirtualBox, host environment 1GB RAM, 1 CPU(PAE). precise-5.7.1.iso downloaded 6 Feb 2014 Boot hangs at "Making the filesystem usable..._" see attached. Ubuntu reports VirtualBox using 26% of cycles, that is 50% of 1 CPU. I woul...

Thanks for the help. I don't know what "supporting kernel driver module" and "xorg modesetting driver" mean, and I can't find a Upup anything thread. I don't really want to bother with finding out the nuts and bolts either - I just want something that works on any PC first time. ...

puppy pfix=nox didn't work - it produced black screen after "loading kernel modules ... " as before, no prompt.

The mobo is ICL D2700MUD, Atom dual core, NM10 chipset, GMA 3600.

I have used Puppy 5.2.8 as a rescue disk plenty of times, and it still works on this machine+screen. I have just downloaded Precise 5.4.3 and burned it OK. On booting it gets to "loading kernel modules ..." and then the screen goes blank, and the screen loads its own message "D-SUB - ...