I finally decided to post my plight to the Ubuntu Forums. Of course, so as not to look like a n00b, I searched first, and lo and behold, a solution!
It seems the instant reboot is caused by an incompatible kernel. Ubuntu server apparently installs a 686 kernel by default. So an aptitude install linux-386 && aptitude remove linux-server should do the trick. My fingers are crossed. Joe On 5/3/07, Joe Fruchey <jfruchey at gmail.com> wrote: > Well, I never did get around to checking those partitions, but I > thought about it last night. Instead of using Knoppix, though, I went > ahead and downloaded the Feisty Desktop iso (in 22 minutes, thank you, > 6Mb DSL!). > > The LiveCD booted fine (which I imagined it would) so I just went > ahead and ran the installer with all the defaults. Not a hitch. It > installed fine, booted fine, everything. What's the deal?! > > Anyhow, right now, I'm running the Feisty server installer *again* to > see if it works this time. > > Joe > > On 4/30/07, Joe Fruchey <jfruchey at gmail.com> wrote: > > Well, the last install I ran was telling Feisty to do the partitioning > > with NO LVM. But yeah, I guess I should see what it comes up as. > > Sounds like something good to do on my lunch break. Living 7 blocks > > from work is teh nice. > > > > Joe > > > > On 4/29/07, Andrew Baudouin <andrewmb at gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'm thinking that a 500 Mhz compaq doesn't support ACPI anyway. I > > > wonder what a Linux LiveCD would see your root partition as? > > > > > > Joe Fruchey wrote: > > > > I tried adding 'noacpi' and 'acpi=off', and neither worked. Thanks, > > > > though. > > > > > > > > On 4/29/07, willhill <williamhill2 at cox.net> wrote: > > > > > > > >> That Fedora set up is cool. Many moons ago people used to use a /boot > > > >> partition to get around BIOS boot disk size limitations. It's neat to > > > >> see > > > >> they remembered the trick and applied it to LVM. The same thing can > > > >> be done > > > >> by making a small root partion and mounting most of the file system, > > > >> like /usr, /var and /home, from other partitons. Dustin has a nifty > > > >> default > > > >> set up, but I gave up most of that because BIOS booting got easier. > > > >> I'll > > > >> still mount /usr and some others from a nice fast scsi drive. > > > >> > > > >> ACPI is something the kernel tries to use, regardless of BIOS > > > >> settings. An > > > >> older machine won't have it and the kernel ACPI can make trouble. You > > > >> disable it with a boot option or two, "acpi=off" and "noacpi". As an > > > >> example > > > >> the grub menu.lst on this machine, /boot/grub/menu.lst, has: > > > >> > > > >> title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-686 > > > >> root (hd0,0) > > > >> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro acpi=off > > > >> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-686 > > > >> > > > >> You can edit that file to add the options from a live CD and you can > > > >> usually > > > >> edit the boot options by some keystroke your distribution should tell > > > >> you > > > >> about. > > > >> > > > >> I hope that helps. > > > >> > > > >> On Friday 27 April 2007 10:19 am, Joe Fruchey wrote: > > > >> > > > >>> I tried running the default Ubuntu 7.04 server install > > > >>> last night using standard guided partitioning (no LVM) only on hda, > > > >>> and it does the same thing. I have no options in the BIOS config for > > > >>> ACPI or APM. Hell, I'm surprised they gave me boot order, piece of > > > >>> crap machine. > > > >>> > > > >> _______________________________________________ > > > >> General mailing list > > > >> General at brlug.net > > > >> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > >> > > > >> > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > General mailing list > > > > General at brlug.net > > > > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > General mailing list > > > General at brlug.net > > > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > >
