Help! Installing 8.10 on Server - errors!!!!

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Jonathan Harrison
<jonathan-harrison at tiscali.it> wrote:
> Hi Lucio
> Thank you.  I had another expert send me some stuff just before yours
> arrived.  Very similar information.
>
> It sounds simple enough, yet as I mentioned I am NOT a techie.  I think I
> know what a kernel is - lines of code (?).  This is all very scary and new
> ground for me.  Could I be a pain please and ask exactly what I need to do
> and how.

Jonathan

When you boot from the CD there is an initial screen that asks what do
you want to do.

There, you have an option to edit the command line, (I can't remember
if it is the F6 option or what, unfortunately no Live CD nearby). I'm
sure it is well explained, just take a moment to check the options.

You may find something like:

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-2-generic
root=UUID=8116c71f-703c-45f2-b7cd-e4e395578ee8 ro quiet splash

just remove "quiet" and "splash" and add:    iommu=noaperture    at
the end of the line and see what happens.

If you are not a techie (just like me) perhaps you should take a look
at the Ubuntu Desktop instead of the Ubuntu Server (your intention, if
I understood correctly), also, you don't need to remove any other
disks from the PC if you intend to put them back later (?). And an
Ubuntu install needs at least two partitions, root (/) and /swap, if
your software do not require a lot of data in the /home partition, the
place where you would keep your personal stuff, if it were not a
server of some kind, but the install program will help you with
partitioning.

Regards,

Lucio