New to Ubuntu

[John Levin]

On 4 Jan 2005, at 18:11, GDB-B&W-X.3.7 wrote:

> I have used YDL on my B&W 400 Mhz system with 896 Mb of RAM before, 
> but this is my first attempt at installing and using Ubuntu.  The 
> installation went just fine, no errors that I could see and I thought 
> it would work on the first attempt.  I was wrong!  I got this message 
> when I tried to boot into Linux:
>
> PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0000:01:02.0
> audit (1104860946.288:0): initialized
> Starting Ubuntu...
> pivot_root: no such file or directory
> /sbin/init:429: cannot open
> /dev/console: no such file
> kernel panic: attempted to kill init!
>
> This display remains for a bit and then the machine reboots.  Is there 
> an archive I can check for these messages or does anyone have any idea 
> of why it's doing this?  Thanks
>
> Just a message from Doug...
>
>

Yup, this has come up on the list before: see the message "Ubuntu on 
Mac G3 B&W not booting", Dec 29 2004 in the archives.
As far as I can tell, this is specific to the blue & white macs. Don't 
think there's a solution to it as yet, don't even know if anyone is 
working on it.

John