WARTY review

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 02:38:37PM -0600, Tommy Trussell wrote:

> I'm trying right now and ... it fails in the same way the new Debian
> Install does. (I filed Debian Bug  #278753, though it's not the
> greatest bug report ever.)

> It looks like it's the same problem-- the root file system gets
> totally trashed during the package installation. Now I will boot from
> the Ubuntu live CD and run fsck just to be absolutely sure.

Based on your reports of DMA errors, filesystem corruption, etc. it sounds
like you may have a hardware-related issue (faulty IDE cable?).

> I don't have any trouble installing Woody on this PC... so it seems
> very odd to me.

It may be that DMA is disabled by default on your hardware with older
kernels.  You might try disabling it manually in the installer and see if
that helps.

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 - mdz