kubuntu-6.06 i386 install, repeated failures

[Gene Heskett]

8 attempts to install this later, I'm about to give up.

The first time, I tried to make it use both disks in the box, but it 
apparently had a better idea, but it did at least install grub.

Grub couldn't reboot however as the kernel then had a crc error, and 
'system halted'

Ran memtest86-3.2 for 89 full cycles, no errors.

Someone suggested bad drive cables so I got 2 fresh ones and installed 
them.  No bisquit there either.

Finally gave up, and cleared the partition table for the 2nd drive and put 
everything on /dev/hda, and finally it was happy and formatted the drive 
the way I wanted it.  The rest of the install went normally till the end, 
at which point a requester comes up and says the grub install failed, 
continue anyway?  So I click yes, and ubiquity than takes a segfault and 
exits, bug report filed before I hit the power button for the night.

The hardware seems to be ok, fresh 450 watt psu, motherboard is a fresh 
Mach-Speed, athlon 1400XP, half a gig of dual channel ram, and it ran 
BDI-4.30 just fine until the program this machine was built to run decided 
it needed python2.4.

Is this a new problem, or is it known and fixable?

This program, emc, is now being developed on ubuntu boxes, so running it 
would seem to make good sense.  Unforch, no bisquit for this elderly 
puppy.

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