Sounds like some bad hardware...CD ROM or motherboard or hdd. I just installed Ubuntu 10.04 beta on an extra hdd and it's running very well. Looking forward to the final version April 29.
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Richard C. Steffens <rst...@comcast.net>wrote: > As I mentioned earlier, my sister recently replace her PC with a Mac. I > now have a spare Sempron 2400+. I upgraded the memory from 256 MB to > 1.256 GB. > > I decided to use the box to try out other distros. I started by burning > Ubuntu 10. When I boot from that CD I got a message that talked about > "init: ureadahead-other main process (971) terminated with status 4". > That message repeated two more times, the only difference was that the > 971 was replaced by 972 and 973, respectively. > > I Googled that error message and found that there was some disagreement > as to whether the problem was with plymouth or the kernel. > > Being more interested in seeing the machine do something, I downloaded > and burned a CD of Ubuntu 9. This time the machine booted from the CD > and, with my agreement, proceeded to wipe XP from the drive and begin > the install. I've got it hooked up with a KVM switch so while it was > working I went back to this machine. I checked back every so often and > saw when it was 60 something % finished, and then again when it was 74% > finished. It stayed at 74% for some time. Finally, I heard the drive > stop seeking and looked again. All that was there was the background > image, the one that looks like sun on a sand dune. > > I took the CD out and rebooted, hoping to find that it would just start > up, but apparently the installer hadn't finished. > > So I rebooted with the CD, figuring that I'd have to at least do some of > it over again. I got the message: > > Boot from CD: > DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER > > Several attempts always gave the same result. So, I thought I'd try the > Ubuntu 10 CD again. I get the same DISK BOOT FAILURE message on that > one, too. > > Does this sound like a bad CD drive? > > I had removed the CD burner from the box and installed in this machine > since all I had in it was a CD reader. I put that reader into the new > box. I don't recall having any trouble with it as a CD reader over the > last couple of years. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
