Monday, December 14, 2009

Installing Ubuntu Server on Older Machine

Installed Ubuntu Server on older machine using guided partitioning.
The GRUB OS chooser screen came up and I tried to select the new installation and got this error:
Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS
Eventually got to this wiki. The kernel GRUB wants to load is outside the range of memory it can reach.
I retried the installation and did manual partitioning this time. Create a 32mb partition at the beginning of the drive and mount /boot to it. This allowed me to boot into the operating system.

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