Black screen in virtualbox

[kvergos]

Hello.

I'm running Ubuntu 7,10 on a Toshiba Satellite A100-192. I installed VirtualBox 1.5.2

So when I run the machine created I get a black screen.
If I proceed to shut down the machine I get a confirmation box and in the backgrownd I see a snap shot of the screen at that instance, but nothing more.

[jba6511]

dumb question but have you installed an OS? If you are booting to install make sure that you put the disk in the cd-rom/dvd, mount the cd rom (mount option in virtualbox) and then start the virtual machine.

[Inxsible]

I get the same black screen when I try to start Puppy. DSL seems to work just fine though.

In Puppy, it asks me if I want to start Xorg or XVesa?

On selecting Xorg - it gives a black screen
On selecting XVesa - it works. and then I have to change the resolution from 600x400 to 1024x768x24

What distro are you trying to run?

[kvergos]

dumb question but have you installed an OS? If you are booting to install make sure that you put the disk in the cd-rom/dvd, mount the cd rom (mount option in virtualbox) and then start the virtual machine.

I did manage to install WinXp SP2 whith some effort ( clicking the x and then selecting cancel to see the install progress).