Comment 33 for bug 220961

I can "create this bug" pretty reliably with the following method:

Using a computer with a lot of RAM and ubuntu 12.04 already installed make a new VM with 8192 MB RAM and 8.00 GB HDD and try to install ubuntu 12.04x64 desktop. Then just next-next-next your way through everything. If you had left the RAM at default 512 you could install just fine and change it after, but with RAM so high you wind up here.