Difficulty installing Feisty Fawn

[Felix Miata]

On 2007/06/24 22:28 (GMT+0100) Martin Thomas apparently typed:

> I have been unable to install Feisty Fawn.
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>     Processor: Intel Pentium 4  1.6GHz
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>     Filesystem    Type   1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
>     /dev/hda3     ext3     7684876   3816608   3477892  53% /
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>     Output of lspci and lspci -n:
>     0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04)
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>     0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04 )
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>     0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev b 2)
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>     Base System Installation Checklist:
>     [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
>     
>     Initial boot worked:    [E]
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>     Unable to find a medium containing a live file system. 

>     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.

I don't have a lot of Ubuntu experience in general, or with Feisty specifically, but having installed Feisty a week ago and again today on separate systems, the latter of which is similar to yours in
having an Intel 845G Brookdale chipset, I'm suspecting from your lack of live filesystem message, and a fsck failure message that I was getting on every boot that I fixed by eradicating UUID=* cruft
from my fstab, that your /etc/fstab is out of sync with /dev/disk/by-uuid. If you can get something to boot in maintenance mode, live Linux CD maybe, so that you can edit that file, strip out the
UUID=* portion of the root filesystem entry, leaving it in the standard old-fashioned /dev/xdx# format you're used to from pre-libata days, I'll bet a buck you can get it to boot.

A related or alternate problem may be that your /boot/grub/menu.lst entries may also have a problem with either UUID format or hdx/sdx conversion, which too is correctable with a plain text editor
from a rescue boot.
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