Tomas Quintero

Typically I work with Windows for day-to-day tasks, however I do use *nix for various tasks both personally and professionally. My background is primarily with FreeBSD and recently I’ve transitioned over to the Debian/Ubuntu camp (although they’re far from the same camp).

I’m looking to take a crack at CentOS though, it seems popular, companies like it, etc. The best way to work with a new OS - run it in a virtual environment!

To turn this into a short story, I was attempting to boot the CentOS 5.3 installer using VirtualBox (2.2.4 r47978) on Windows Vista64 Ultimate. Unfortunately, the install kept hanging at the message of “NET: Registered protocol family 2″. Strange.

Next I began poking around and found that checking off “Enable IO APIC” in VBox’s advanced options proved to become a solution.

Now, my CentOS installer boots up, with no problem!