Running Ubuntu Server 7.10 in VMWare Server
After installing Ubuntu 7.10 server in a VMWare Server virtual machine on any non-PAE compliant machine (lots of laptops, anyone?) you’ll reboot and be greeted with this wonderful error message:
PANIC: CPU too old for this kernel. |
There is a solution in launchpad.net (here)
The current workaround for this: 1. Boot the server from the CD, choose to ‘Rescue a broken system’. 2. Get a shell in your installed system. 3. If /boot contains the generic kernel, then it’s the CD’s /boot; unmount it and mount it to get your server’s /boot in there. 4. aptitude install linux-generic 5. Reboot and choose the generic kernel in GRUB. |
