Unable to use Ubuntu 8.04 live CD

[NoOp]

On 09/06/2008 12:37 AM, Jerry Alber wrote:

> NoOp,
> 
> Before filing a bug report, I did try something else which allowed me to 
> install to a partition rather than the whole HD, as I did on another 
> machine.
> 
> This came about when installing Fedora 9 and after the installation, 
> received a "unkown file or directory type" from GRUB. I managed to find 
> out that it had to do with 256-byte inodes versus the 128-byte inodes. 
> My version of GRUB can not handel 256-byte inodes, so I formatted the 
> partition using a live Knoppix CD and then made sure that I did not 
> re-format the partition during installation. This worked.
> 
> I also did the same with Ubuntu 8.04.1 Alternate CD and managed to 
> install it to a partition with /boot/grub being there. It wasn't before. 
> However, I still can not log in as  when I try with my login name and 
> password, it takes me right back to the login screen:(
> 
> I have successfully installed Ubuntu-Studio 8.04.1, but still had to 
> make sure the partition was formatted with 128-byte inodes. No problem 
> logging in at all.
> 
> If you think I should file a bug report, I would be happy to, but will 
> need your help.
> 
> Thanks for all of the help you have given me.
> Jerry
> 
> 

What version of grub are you running? Can you provide the outoput of:

dkpg -l grub

You might want to download and burn a copy of SuperGrub to a cd:
http://www.supergrubdisk.org/