ISO boot of latest 8.04

[Gilles Gravier]

Verde,

Verde Denim wrote:
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> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Gilles Gravier <gilles at gravier.org 
> <mailto:gilles at gravier.org>> wrote:
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>     Hi!
>
>     Verde Denim wrote:
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>>     On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Verde Denim <tdldev at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:tdldev at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>         On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Verde Denim
>>         <tdldev at gmail.com <mailto:tdldev at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>             On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:51 AM, elmo <elmo at ne.rr.com
>>             <mailto:elmo at ne.rr.com>> wrote:
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>>                 Verde Denim wrote:
>>                 > I thought I saw another thread on this, but haven't
>>                 been able to locate
>>                 > it...
>>                 >
>>                 > I burned an iso image of 8.04 today, and when
>>                 selecting 'Install', I'm
>>                 > getting a long list of errors such as
>>                 > SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed at ...   And Buffer
>>                 I/O error at device sr0
>>                 >
>>                 > Is this the iso or is this pointing to a different
>>                 problem?
>>                 >
>>                 > Thanks for any input...
>>                 >
>>                 > Jack
>>                 >
>>                 >
>>                 Could you describe exactly how you "burned the iso
>>                 image" ?
>>                 Did you copy the iso to a disk or did you use a CD
>>                 burner that has a burn
>>                 iso inage function?
>>
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>>             Used Nero - burn an image file to disc function -
>>             The first time at highest speed. After reading the
>>             Launchpad reports (see Steve's reply), I burned another
>>             disc at 4x. I'm trying the disc burned at the slower
>>             speed now.
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>>         Update: No joy. Same errors (SQUASHFS and I/O errors).
>>          
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>>     Update 2: I shut off the splash to see the messages - as soon as
>>     the boot sequence loads squashfs (dated October, 2007) the
>>     install borks - sarts throwing the same errors I've seen before.
>>     I think there is something wrong with the 8.04 iso on the Ubu
>>     site. Does anyone know where I can get an iso of 7.10? If that
>>     would work, I can always do the dist-upgrade to get to the latest
>>     release...
>     The ISO works fine. Check the MD5 hash of your ISO... and compare
>     to what the site says.
>
>     If you have the 8.04.1 i368 desktop, your MD5 hash should be :
>     c69e34e92d5402d1b87e6babc739f774
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>     You may be having other problems. How much RAM does your system have?
>
>     Have you tried downloading the "alternate" CD? Works with smaller,
>     and sometimes more exotic machines.
>
>     Gilles.
>
>
> Gilles
> I have the 8.04 i386 desktop iso. I'm currently installing win on the 
> box, just to see if it's hardware. This same error has been reported 
> in launchpad (and apparently hasn't been dealt with yet, since I read 
> a few instances of this). I've the various workarounds (pcmcia=nomsi, 
> ide=nodma, remove the splash) but no joy there either. I'll check the 
> md5 of the iso file on my other ubu box and see what that brings, 
> although i've burned three different downloads from three different 
> mirrors, and they all say they have defective files on the cd - using 
> different burners. It's beginning to make me wonder about the iso 
> being distributed.
>
> The machine is a Dell Dimension 4500 with 1GB of RAM and a 80GB IDE 
> drive. At this point it's a stock machine that was running 7.10 until 
> the drive crashed.
>
> I haven't tried any other iso's since at the moment I'm out of 
> blanks... :)

What's the MD5 of your 8.04 ISO, then? It should be : 
8895167a794c5d8dedcc312fc62f1f1f (works on several machines I've used it 
on).

Gilles


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