ubuntu 9.04 installation problem

[Mark Kirkwood]

Mahadi Hasan wrote:
>> You really need to stop giving out crappy advice.  ext4 is not
>> considered experimental in anything but using it on the /boot partition.
>> I've successfully installed and used a couple of different distros with
>> ext4 partitions (except the /boot/) and had no trouble at all.
>>
>> To me, this isn't a filesystem issue.  It sounds to me like either a bug
>> in the installer interacting with his hardware, or even something as
>> simple as the system is not writing the partition table correctly.
>>
>> He really doesn't give us enough information to help with debugging it,
>> and personally, I'd prefer finding the real problem rather than avoiding
>> it by dropping to ext3.  It's possible that it doesn't matter WHAT
>> filesystem he uses, it'll do the same thing.
>>
>>
>>     
>
> Yes, I also think that there might be a bug in the installer file or
> any other problem with the software, but before throwing it away I'd
> like to give another try.
> I used ' / ' not ' /boot '.
> What else information do you need?
> Give me the step by step method to solve it, please.
>
>   

You need to provide some more information before anyone can help you 
with this. For instance:

- Motherboard make and model
- Cpu make and model (ok you gave this Celeron D)
- Harddrive attachment type (SATA or PATA)
- Cdrom make and attachment (PATA or SATA)
- install media type (32 or 64 bit)

Also run the 'check disk for defects' option on the media itself and 
report back with the results.

It might be helpful to describe more fully what partitioning scheme you 
used -  from you message it looks like you had:

partition1: / (ext4)
partition2: swap

As others have mentioned, if you want to use ext4 you need a separate 
/boot partition formatted as ext2 or ext3.

Finally I'm a bit confused about your comment 'both start from the 
beginning...' for the partitions - hopefully you don't have them 
overlapping? (that would be bad).

regards

Mark