Unable to use Ubuntu 8.04 live CD

[Jerry Alber]

NoOp wrote:
> 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/
>
>
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>   
NoOp,

The version of GRUB that I am using is (GNU GRUB 0.97) which is the 
"legacy" version. The system didn't understand the dkpg command so I am 
unable to give you the output. As I understand it, the GRUB maintainers 
are putting all of their energy into GRUB 2 and have put GRUB legacy 
into a feature freeze. GRUB 2's current reliability is questionable and 
they are still making "incompatible changes". Stabilizing the features 
is planned for sometime in November of 2008. Since Ubuntu is not the 
only distro I have running and since there are other distros that I have 
installed with no problems, I think I will wait until GRUB 2 is 
stabilized before changing over.

Hope the above "rant" helps :)
Jerry
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