Hack Night: 7/5/06
Published by Rob Flickenger July 6th, 2006 in SeattleWirelessI’ve been doing a brief (and early) hack night visit lately due to a scheduling conflict. But this week I actually got something done: I helped Joe debug an odd problem with Ubuntu (Dapper) and VMWare. It seems that while Ubuntu correctly detects the virtual hard drive as a SCSI device, the boot loader still has disk geometry issues, as if it were an IDE disk.
The symptom is easy: the boot loader (grub or LILO) refuses to boot after installation when installing on a disk > 8GB. LILO just hangs, and grub throws an Error 18. Even though it is a virtual SCSI disk, we decided to treat it like an IDE and give /boot a separate small partition (why Dapper insists on making 1.5 GB the smallest partition size, I do not know…) But a quick repartition and reinstall later, and everything was peachy.
It looks like I’ll be hitting hack night early (5:00ish) and leaving early for the foreseeable future. I wouldn’t mind coming over even earlier if we can do something about the nasty crash-happy pre-N AP at Vivace. Unfortunately I gave my last WRT54G to Joe Bar…
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