Dapper post installation problem

[Sridhar M.A.]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 11:18:55AM +0100, Stefan Güls wrote:
   > Sridhar M.A. schrieb:
   > >...
   > >After the installation was complete, when I try to boot into the new
   > >installation, the machine hangs after displaying a couple of lines that
   > >generally comes up before the screen switches to splash/etc.
   > >
   > >Just writing from my memory:
   > >
   > >  ...
   > >  Loading kernel image ...
   > >  boot
   > >
   > >It stays there; nothing happens. I tried passing the following
   > >parameters to the kernel with no effect:
   > >  
   > >    vga=normal nosplash noacpi noapic
   > >
   > >The machine is AMD Athlon machine; 512 MB RAM, ASUS A7N266-VM board with
   > >...
   > >  
   > 
   > Looks like there's something wrong with the initrd. Either the 
   > initrd.img itself isn't valid, or some link isn't pointing right, or 
   > maybe the line in /boot/grub/menu.lst to tell grub which initrd.img to 
   > preload is malformed.
   > 
Thanks for the reply. Was sorry that no replies were coming forth on
this issue.

I do not think that there is a bad link, etc. I switched to the command
mode of grub and loaded everythin from there. Still the same thing.

Any ideas?

Regards,

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