[plug] Ubuntu 7.04

[Tomasz Grzegurzko]

On 4/25/07, Kai <vk6ksj at westnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> 'morning everyone,
>
> Firstly, respect for those who gave their lives for us today.
>
> Now back to my email, I just installed Ubuntu 7.04...live CD ran fine,
> everything said it installed ok but up reboot and choosing Ubuntu from
> the GRUB list it says...
>
> "invalid compressed format (err=2)"
>
> I've done some googling and maybe I was using the wrong search terms but
> the only info I found was about older (IBM) machines and problems with
> burning the disk images at too higher speeds.
>
> FYI I have an AMD 64 dual core 3700+ with 2 gigs of RAM, 2 x 250 gig
> SATA HDD's
>
> I tried reburning the ISO image at a lower speed, that didn't work. I
> would've thought if there was a problem with the compressed image I'd
> get an error when the live CD boots ?
>
> Any thoughts or ideas are appreciated
>
> Cheers
> Kai
>

Sounds to me like your initrd has been made bad (?) or your kernel isn't
living properly in /boot. Is that all you get? What filesystem is your /boot
partition residing on?

mkinitramfs is the tool you need, look under /boot/initrd* -- if it is less
than a few megs, there's something wrong.


Tomasz
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