Difficulty installing Feisty Fawn

Sun Jun 24 21:28:00 UTC 2007

I have been unable to install Feisty Fawn. I have put this message together using the format described on the DVD.

  Package: installation-reports

    Boot method: DVD
    Image version: Ubunto 7.04 Feisty Fawn DVD, which came with Linux Magazine July 2007
    Date: Friday 18 June 2007

    Machine: HP Pavillion 740
    Processor: Intel Pentium 4  1.6GHz
    Memory:  256 MB
    Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred>

     $ df -Tl
    Filesystem    Type   1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
    /dev/hda3     ext3     7684876   3816608   3477892  53% /
  varrun        tmpfs       128124        72     128052   1% /var/run
  varlock       tmpfs       128124          4    128120   1% /var/lock
  udev          tmpfs       128124       160     127964   1% /dev
  devshm        tmpfs       128124          0    128124   0% /dev/shm
  lrm           tmpfs      128124      18856    109268  15%  /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/volatile
  /dev/hda1     vfat      3226712   2505112    721600  78%  /mnt/winhp
    /dev/hda2     ntfs    24659772  23126772   1533000  94% /mnt/winxp
    /dev/hdb1     vfat      7771600     6321728   1449872  82% /mnt/win98
  /dev/hdb2     ext3      8570476   4462124   3672992  55% /mnt/debian
    /dev/hda5     ext3    15116836  10053508   4295424  71% /home2
  /dev/hdc   iso9660      4163890    4163890         0 100%  /media/cdrom0
  /dev/sda1     vfat       244516    135048    109468  56%  /media/sda1

    Output of lspci and lspci -n:

     $ lspci
    0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04)
    0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04 )
    0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 05)
    0000:00:1f.0 ISA   bridge: Intel Corporation 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 05)
    0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 05)
    0000:00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 05)
    0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM SMBus (rev 05)
    0000:00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 05)
    0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio (rev 05 )
    0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev b 2)
    0000:02:01.0 Modem: PCTel Inc HSP MicroModem 56 (rev 02)
     $ lspci -n
    0000:00:00.0 0600: 8086:1a30 (rev 04)
    0000:00:01.0 0604: 8086:1a31 (rev 04)
    0000:00:1e.0 0604: 8086:244e (rev 05)
    0000:00:1f.0 0601: 8086:2440 (rev 05)
    0000:00:1f.1 0101: 8086:244b (rev 05)
    0000:00:1f.2 0c03: 8086:2442 (rev 05)
    0000:00:1f.3 0c05: 8086:2443 (rev 05)
    0000:00:1f.4 0c03:   8086:2444 (rev 05)
    0000:00:1f.5 0401: 8086:2445 (rev 05)
    0000:01:00.0 0300: 10de:0110 (rev b2)
    0000:02:01.0 0703: 134d:7892 (rev 02)

    Base System Installation Checklist:
    [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

    Initial boot worked:    [E]
    Configure network HW:   [ ]
    Config network:         [ ]
    Detect CD:              [ ]
    Load installer modules: [ ]
    Detect hard drives:     [ ]
    Partition hard drives:  [ ]
    Create file systems:    [ ]
    Mount partitions:       [ ]
    Install base system:    [ ]
    Install boot loader:    [ ]
    Reboot:                 [ ]

    Comments/Problems:

    After the orange blob had gone to and fro about 6 times this message appeared:

    /bin/sh: can't access tty: job control turned off

       and then, a few seconds later:

    [ 89.72282] sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
    [ 89.882264] sdc: assuming drive cache: write through

       And I was left at the shell prompt:

    (initramfs)

       I found casper.log in the root directory; the first 18 lines of this were identical:

    /init: /init: 1: cannot open /dev/fd0: No such device or address

       and the last line:

    Unable to find a medium containing a live file system. 

       I tried booting several times with the same result each time, except that the numbers in square brackets varied. 

    I have previously instaled several Linux distros on this machine,  including Ubuntu 6.06, without   problems, so I am a loss as to what has gone wrong here. Any  help would be apreciated.

Martin
mptxyz at yahoo.co.uk

---------------------------------
 New Yahoo! Mail is the ultimate force in competitive emailing. Find out more at the Yahoo! Mail Championships. Plus: play games and win prizes.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/attachments/20070624/2ecb5eed/attachment.html>