New to Ubuntu

[Brian Barr]

> > I have used YDL on my B&W 400 Mhz system with 896 Mb of RAM before, 
> > but this is my first attempt at installing and using Ubuntu.  The 
> > installation went just fine, no errors that I could see and I thought 
> > it would work on the first attempt.  I was wrong!  I got this message 
> > when I tried to boot into Linux:
> >
> > PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0000:01:02.0
> > audit (1104860946.288:0): 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!
> >
> > This display remains for a bit and then the machine reboots.  Is there 
> > an archive I can check for these messages or does anyone have any idea 
> > of why it's doing this?  Thanks
> >
> > Just a message from Doug...
> >
> >
> 
> Yup, this has come up on the list before: see the message "Ubuntu on 
> Mac G3 B&W not booting", Dec 29 2004 in the archives.
> As far as I can tell, this is specific to the blue & white macs. Don't 
> think there's a solution to it as yet, don't even know if anyone is 
> working on it.
> 
> John

I had similar problems with my WallStreet PowerBook.  It seemed to be related to me mounting the HFS partition I used to store the System\ Folder and Linux\ Kernels, and then using 'cp' to get the linux kernels in the correct spot.

Now I use 'hmount' and 'hcopy' to put the kernels in place, and this hasn't happened since.  

Of course, YMMV.