** Description changed:

  To reproduce this issue, just use F4 option in the first screen of the
- installer and select "Minimal virtual system". Once booted, run "uname
- -a". You'll see the system is using the -generic-pae kernel image
- instead of the expected -virtual.
+ installer and select "install minimal virtual machine". Once booted, run
+ "uname -a". You'll see the system is using the -generic-pae kernel image
+ instead of the expected -virtual. The -virtual kernel-image is supposed
+ to be an optimized kernel for the most common hypervisors. I can also
+ see that the -virtual image is installed but not used. Idon't get a grub
+ menu either, there is no menu.lst in /boot/grub.
  
- Also, I get two error messages from plymout on boot this clean system in
- both vmware xsphere 4.1 and Player. They read:
- 
+ Also, I get two error messages from plymout on boot this clean system in both 
vmware vSphere 4.1 and Player. 
+ They read:
  init: plymouth-splash main process (567) terminated with status 1
  init: plymouth-log main process (587) terminated with status 1
  
  This is a clean install. To reproduce, just install as per the
  instructions given above.
- 
- I think the F4 option to install a JEOS system is deprecated, so it
- should be removed from the installer altogether.

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Title:
  When using F4 option to install a minimal virtual system, the kernel image 
used is -generic-pae instead of -virtual as documented. (10.04 LTS server i386) 

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