Ubuntu stuck asking to remove installation medium on Hyper V install

Question

I'm trying to install 16.04 on a virtual machine on my Windows 10 laptop. Everything goes fine with the install with the only variance from defaults is the usage of third party video drivers. I click ok to reboot and it then tells me to remove the installation medium and press enter. It's a virtual machine install, how do I do that without removing my keyboard?

Answer 1

Taken from https://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/5078-hyper-v-create-linux-virtual-machine-windows-8-a.html:

When Ubuntu reboots and stops telling Please remove installation media, click Stop to stop and close vm. This ejects the installation media

and now Restart vm, and you will be able to log in

Answer 2

After installing GnomeUbuntu 16.04 iso on Hyper-v went to the Hyper-v/ Configuration Settings/Bios and moved IDE to 1st boot position. It worked for me.

Answer 3

Here is the latest update... I'm going to conclude that there is something amiss with 16.04. Noting what user542100 commented: ( Running on a Surface Pro 4. Ubuntu 14.04 works fine, but 16.04 just sits there after entering my password. Hyper-V manager shows this taking around 24% of the CPU, so something is going on. ) I decided to download the 14.04 ISO and create a VM using that one.

Not only did it respond when I hit "Enter" when prompted, but when it restarted and I logged in, the desktop loaded (in the 16.04 build, "turning off" the VM and then starting it got me to the login screen, but once I logged in, the desktop never appeared and a crash report started flashing so quickly I couldn't read it.

The only problem that remains is that there is no network connection even after I entered the static IP information that is required for my network (a unique IP address, not that assigned to the physical NIC). I will start a new thread for that one... also, going to full screen doesn't fill the screen, but, again, a new thread for that one.

So it appears to me, the ball is in Ubuntu's court.

Answer 4

i found that you just have to restart when you see that screen as it hangs on remove the media, even if i hit enter on my keyboard. If I let it sit, eventually it runs through about a thousand lines of code on screen and errors out. If I just hit reset then it restarts Ubuntu, and then brings me to the login screen.