Ubuntu 8.10 and Microsoft Virtual PC 2007

Posted At : December 15, 2008 1:06 PM | Posted By : JD
Related Categories: Cygwin,Open Source,Ubuntu

After finally getting Cygwin installed on my Windows XP Pro SP 2 laptop, I discovered how difficult it can be to get large open-source projects to correctly compile under Cygwin.  This was exteremely irritating for obvious reasons.

So I decided to try and install Ubuntu 8.10 under Microsoft Virtual PC 2007.  I had previously installed older versions of Ubuntu this way, but was having some trouble getting 8.10 installed.  After some searching, I found this wonderful post and comment thread.

The short story is, I had to add vga=791 noreplace-paravirt to the grub command line for the initial boot.  Then noreplace-paravirt to /boot/grub/menu.lst after installation and any subsequent updates that modify this file.

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