[ubuntu-uk] Cannot install Feisty Fawn

Tue Jul 3 16:02:39 BST 2007

Looks like you might have a problem with your Hard Disks, can you
explain your hard disk setup (including size, arrangement and types
and what partitions are on them)

Regards,

On 03/07/07, Martin Thomas <mptxyz at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 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
> mptxyz at yahoo.co.uk
>
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