[ubuntu-uk] Cannot install Feisty Fawn

[Martin Thomas]

On booting from the install DVD, after the orange blob had gone to and fro about 6 times,
   this message appeared:

/bin/sh: can't access tty: job control turned off

   and then, a few seconds later:

[ 89.72282] sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
[ 89.882264] sdc: assuming drive cache: write through

   And I was left at the shell prompt:

(initramfs)

    which gave me a very simplified shell. Neither the DVD or any of my hard disks were mounted, I assume that all the files visable were in a ram disk.
   
     I found casper.log in the root directory; the first 18 lines of this were identical:

/init: /init: 1: cannot open /dev/fd0: No such device or address

   and the last line:

Unable to find a medium containing a live file system. 

   I tried booting several times with the same result each time, except that the numbers in square brackets varied. 

I have previously instaled several Linux distros on this machine, including Ubuntu 6.06, without problems, so I am a loss as to what has gone wrong here. Any help would be apreciated. Maybe there is some boot option that will help, but I do not know enogh to work it out.

   
  The rest of this email folows the format recomended on the DVD.

Boot method: DVD
Image version: Ubunto 7.04 Feisty Fawn DVD, which came with Linux Magazine July 2007
Date: Friday 18 June 2007

Machine: HP Pavillion 740
Processor: Intel Pentium 4  1.6GHz
Memory:  256 MB
Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred>

 $ df -Tl
Filesystem    Type   1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3     ext3     7684876   3816608   3477892  53% /
varrun       tmpfs      128124        72    128052   1% /var/run
varlock      tmpfs      128124         4    128120   1% /var/lock
udev         tmpfs      128124       160    127964   1% /dev
devshm       tmpfs      128124         0    128124   0% /dev/shm
lrm          tmpfs      128124     18856    109268  15% /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/volatile
/dev/hda1     vfat     3226712   2505112    721600  78% /mnt/winhp
/dev/hda2     ntfs    24659772  23126772   1533000  94% /mnt/winxp
/dev/hdb1     vfat     7771600   6321728   1449872  82% /mnt/win98
/dev/hdb2     ext3     8570476   4462124   3672992  55% /mnt/debian
/dev/hda5     ext3    15116836  10053508   4295424  71% /home2
/dev/hdc   iso9660     4163890   4163890         0 100% /media/cdrom0
/dev/sda1     vfat      244516    135048    109468  56% /media/sda1

Output of lspci and lspci -n:

 $ lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04 )
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 05)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 05)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 05)
0000:00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 05)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM SMBus (rev 05)
0000:00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 05)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio (rev 05 )
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev b 2)
0000:02:01.0 Modem: PCTel Inc HSP MicroModem 56 (rev 02)
 $ lspci -n
0000:00:00.0 0600: 8086:1a30 (rev 04)
0000:00:01.0 0604: 8086:1a31 (rev 04)
0000:00:1e.0 0604: 8086:244e (rev 05)
0000:00:1f.0 0601: 8086:2440 (rev 05)
0000:00:1f.1 0101: 8086:244b (rev 05)
0000:00:1f.2 0c03: 8086:2442 (rev 05)
0000:00:1f.3 0c05: 8086:2443 (rev 05)
0000:00:1f.4 0c03: 8086:2444 (rev 05)
0000:00:1f.5 0401: 8086:2445 (rev 05)
0000:01:00.0 0300: 10de:0110 (rev b2)
0000:02:01.0 0703: 134d:7892 (rev 02)

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot worked:    [E]

   


Martin
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