Difficulty installing Feisty Fawn

[Martin Thomas]

On Mon Jun 25 00:42:33 2007   Felix Miata  wrote:
   
  > 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.
   
  The problem is that I cannot get Ubuntu to install at all, so there are no files on my hard disk that I can edit. At the point at which the install fails I am looking at what must be a ram disc with a very simplified shell. There is no /etc/fstab though there are files in /dev/disk/by-uuid. I can't find an editor, but I can create small files with 'echo' or make simple changes with sed. I am hoping that there is some boot option that will help, but do not know enogh to work it out.
   
   


Martin
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