Re: any suggestions for this issue in parallels on MB pro

Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
have attached picture to best describe the issue. For some reason no
Ubuntu CD displays their boot menu properly, and typing the command
"server" like it suggests doesn't work. Only selecting "install" will
work.... any pointers please?

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Long-winded work-around to my own question:


If you wanna install feisty in current version of parallels, you can't:
it complains that there is no cd-rom. Running the edgy cd gives the
problem that I originally mentioned and you can only install everything
including x.
Installing using the edgy server cd gives fatal errors after the first
boot, there is a lot written about this bug so it's already reported. If
you already have the alternate edgy cd you can quickly download the
server cd using jigdo-lite.

Trick is to install using the edgy server cd, and it will error out on
first boot. So you boot up using a knoppix CD, mount your edgy root and
the edgy /boot then chroot into the ubuntu system.
Then run 'aptitude install linux-image-generic' and then 'aptitude purge
linux-image-server linux-image-2.6????-server' (you'll have to find the
exact name of the package installed - I've forgotten). Now you should be
good to reboot into the ubuntu system, now running the generic kernel.
I thought that VMs were supposed to make things easier but there's no
doubt that parallels seriously sucks with linux and seriously kicks-ass
with xp :P

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