<HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="IncrediMail 1.0"> <STYLE>v\:* { BEHAVIOR: url (#default#vml) } </STYLE> <style>v\:* { BEHAVIOR: url (#default#vml) } </style>  </HEAD> <BODY style="MARGIN: 5px 10px 10px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" background="" scroll=yes bgColor=#ffffff> <TABLE id=INCREDIMAINTABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 width="100%"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD style="DIRECTION: ltr; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" dir=ltr id=INCREDITEXTREGION width="100%"> <DIV>I am trying to install a Ubuntu 9.04 system on a usb hard drive. I have had this same setup installed using Opensuse so I know it will work. I can load the CD-Live and it works normal. When I do an install to the hard drive and try to load it, I get an error message. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>[9+0 records in<BR>[9+0 records out<BR><init: name_to_dev_t(/dev/disk/by-uuid/7eb39bfc-e0ef-4bb3-a8d0-e3dcf4eeb945) = dev(8,5)<BR><init: trying to resume from /dev/disk/by-uuid/7eb39bfc-e0ef-4bb3-a8d0-e3dcf4eeb945)<BR><init: No resume image, doing normal boot</DIV> <DIV>Trying to resume No resume image.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>If I do a boot and hit alt - F3, everything has an OK except Gnome Display Manager. It has (Fail) after it.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>If I enter startx I get the following message.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Entered startx<BR>x Protocol Version 11, Revision 11</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>get fences failed: -1<BR>param: 6, val: -1<BR>get fences failed: -1<BR>param: 6, val: -1<BR>EE) config/hal: couldn't initialize context: (null) ((null))</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>waiting for X server to shut down error setting MTRR (base = 0xc000000, size = 0x10000000, type = 1) Invalid argument (22)<BR>ddxSigGiveUp: Closing log</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I'm new to Linux so I could use some help.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Terry Ehrhart</DIV></TD></TR> <TR> <TD id=INCREDIFOOTER width="100%"> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD width="100%"></TD> <TD id=INCREDISOUND vAlign=bottom align=middle></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></BODY></HTML>