14.04

[Colin Law]

On 19 April 2014 22:01, R Kimber <richardkimber at btinternet.com> wrote:
> When I boot up 14.04 I get an otherwise blank screen with the message:
>
> "error: malformed file, press any key to continue".

Is that standard Ubuntu?

Did you run the file integrity check on the usb or dvd before you installed?

>
> Pressing a key allows booting to continue, but one wonders what the
> problem is.
>
> dmesg is full of stuff like:-
>
> Apr 19 21:51:13 infinity kernel: [  551.332383] status interrupt: 00 02
> Apr 19 21:51:13 infinity kernel: [  551.364405] status interrupt: 00 02

I don't see any messages for infinity kernel.  I don't even see any
messages with a date time in that format.

Colin