Booting ubuntu via VirtualBox on Win7 goes to black screen after this prompt

Question

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99% of the time The first option is selected by VirtualBox in under 3 seconds, the other 1% it pauses for me to actually choose. No matter the option I choose, the next screen will be a black screen with an unblinking prompt and that's it.

Additionally, VirtualBox is being initiated via a vagrant up on Windows 7 via a cygwin commandline.

I'd appreciate as many ideas as possible, random spitballs are also welcome!

Answer 1

Found out what the problem was. As embarrassing as it may sound, simply enabling Hardware Virtualization from the BIOS solved the problem

Answer 2

The blinking cursor can be a number of things. Are you able to CTRL + F2 to get to a terminal, or is it completely dead?

If you boot to a live cd and mount the hard drive, is your stuff on the file system?

Lastly, have you tried this? :)