Installation Problems: powerpc, Release Candidate, B&W G3

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 12:14:30PM -0400, David McLaughlin wrote:

> I just downloaded the latest RC ISO for PowerPC, and I continue to have
> problems installing on my B&W G3. After the machine reboots after the CD
> installation is complete, I get the following error messages:
> 
> [Tux Picture]
> audit(1097856659.239.0): initialized
> Starting Ubuntu...
> pivot_root: No such file or directory
> /sbin/init: 429: cannot open dev/console: No such file
> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init
> 
> At this point, nothing further works, and I'm forced to reboot. I thought
> this may have been a known error in the kernel, but I thought I remembered
> seeing that that problem had been resolved, so I was wondering if this is
> perhaps something different.

Yes, we did fix an issue with similar symptoms (described as part of
https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496).

So if you are still experiencing this with the RC (make sure you've
downloaded the CD that you expected), it may be a different bug.

-- 
 - mdz