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Its been a long time since I did any work on my personal work server (my old desktop, bought back when Windows 98 was still all the rage. I’ve done a few upgrades since.) that sits under my desk here at home. Unfortunately, I never did quite get it working quite how I wanted it to. As such, I decided a few months back that I was going to rework the system entirely and get it just the way I want it this time around. I finally got around to starting at it this weekend.

Having something of a good experience with Ubuntu’s Desktop Edition of Linux, I decided that I would take a look at their Server Edition. Popping the disk into the drive, I click and tap through a very painless installation process. All the partitioning is done on my behalf, as you would expect, and I was even offered the option of a LAMP setup to be automatically installed. Wait 30 minutes, remove CD, reboot.

GRUB loads, computer reboots. GRUB loads, computer reboots. And again. And again.

After a bit of Googling yesterday, I discovered that this is a problem that has been known about for at least the last few versions of the OS (since 6.06). I am using 7.04, so there has been a couple of iterations since. Thankfully, there is a solution – uninstall linux-server and install the “standard” kernel in its place. It doesn’t take long either. What it does take is a more substantial chunk out of your hard disk (114MB as opposed to 53.2Kb), but then whats the cost of disk space these days anyway?

Now if only I had tested to see if sshd was installed before I disconnected the monitor and keyboard…

[tags]ubuntu, server, automation, tools[/tags]

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