On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 12:12:22PM +0300, Slohm Gadaburi wrote:
> Unfortunately I can't get it to work with modern distributions. I
> installed 64bit Hardy as a guest, but I failed to get it to boot with
> an external kernel (I did gave it an initramfs drive using the initrd
> option, and set the kernel root param to the right UUID number).

I've done this loads of times with great success. What happens when you
try?

> Besides, I really don't need the graphics and I couldn't find a way to
> make Ubuntu start in text mode (no init levels in Ubuntu anymore..).

Just pass "single" on the kernel command line, and you'll end up in
single user mode.

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