Install hangup....

[Joseph]

David Vincent wrote:
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> Joseph wrote:
>> After I sent this, I'd gone for a walk.  When I came back about a half hour later, it had indeed 
>> installed.  However, I'm back at the error point where I was before.
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>> It wouldn't boot from the HD, so I put the disk in and booted in the "Safe Mode" which took me to a 
>> list of choices.  I chose the "Recovery Mode" and here's the errors I get in the last couple of 
>> lines starting with the one that appears correct (lines are as seen on the screen):
>>
>> 	[   34.484528] RAMDISK:  Compressed image found at block 0
>> 	[   34.493544] invalid compressed format (err=1)
>> 	[   34.494287] VFS: Cannot open root device "UUID=dc6c48c4-cc9b-4851-a668-a132c5
>> 9bafbe" or unknown-block(0,0)
>> 	[   34.494351] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the availab
>> le partitions:
>> 	[   34.494414] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown wn-block(0,0)
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>> OK...   everything is exactly as I see it on the screen.  I hope this too is detailed enough.
>>
>> Any ideas?
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> 1.  hard drive error - are you sure your hd is working fine?  i'd run
> spinrite on there but sadly that isn't a free utility and i can't point
> you at a download for it - perhaps boot into the livecd desktop and run
> fsck on your created partitions?  what filesystem did you choose?  ext3?
> 
> 2.  ram error - did you test your ram yet?
> 
> 3.  boot the livecd to a desktop, open a terminal, issue the command
> "blkid", compare the UUID results with the partition grub is trying to
> load up there in your pasted text and see if it it aimed at the wrong
> partition or something.  i doubt this is it, usually grub is good at
> throwing its own obscure error I have to google to understand.
> 
> 4.  boot into the livecd desktop and then use the partition editor to
> setup your partitions before you run the install, then install from the
> alternate cd and use manual partitioning to install making sure you
> don't delete your partitions you just mount them at appropriate spots
> and format the filesystems as necessary.
> 
> hrm...anyone else?
> 
> - -d


I booted to the live CD and I tried to bring up the internet browser and when the browser came up,
the system seized and there were about 5 varying width multi-colored bars across the screen....
and it sat there.

I did the memory test and found some interesting little tidbits about this computer....   I have a 
Celeron 2660Mhz chip; 512Mb Ram; and the Chipset is Intel i845 E/G/PE/GE 133Mhz - Not sure what all 
the chipset info means though...   <grimace>

However, my memory came up with a lot of errors....   I ran it twice and it's now saying there's 184 
errors....   AND it says, "Unexpected Interrupt - Halting" at the top of the red error field.

So I would suspect that the drive, which is read ok in my other computer, is not the problem... 
but rather the memory.

Guess I must go find another stick of RAM....

Are my suspicions probably?

Joseph