After messing around with the hardware configuration on my (previously working) Linux server, I finally got Ubuntu installed an booting on the system. Apparently, there is an issue with the configuration of the hard drives and the order of operation. I had a single 250GB IDE drive for the OS (which installed just fine) and three 500GB drives in an onboard SATA RAID configuration (one of the half-software and half-hardware RAID controllers). Going through the BIOS configuration (over and over and over and ...) I finally gave up trying to get the system to boot off the IDE drive first (no there was not an option for the boot order of the hard drives).
So, I ended up taking out one of the 500GB drives (I don't need the space on there anyway) and the IDE drive. Now, I have two 500GB SATA hard drives in a non-raid configuration. I used one for the OS, boot and swap. The other is primarily for storing the CD and IOS images, virtual machines and other related data for the lab configuration.
I will post a page on the lab server configuration soon. I am still working on the architecture, but the quad core CPU with 8 GB of RAM should be capable of handling everything I need for now. I plan on getting the rest of the configuration completed in the next few days (installing the ubuntu-desktop package now).
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