any suggestions for this issue in parallels on MB pro

[Gabriel Dragffy]

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