On 4/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kai</b> <<a href="mailto:vk6ksj@westnet.com.au">vk6ksj@westnet.com.au</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
'morning everyone,<br><br>Firstly, respect for those who gave their lives for us today.<br><br>Now back to my email, I just installed Ubuntu 7.04...live CD ran fine,<br>everything said it installed ok but up reboot and choosing Ubuntu from
<br>the GRUB list it says...<br><br>"invalid compressed format (err=2)"<br><br>I've done some googling and maybe I was using the wrong search terms but<br>the only info I found was about older (IBM) machines and problems with
<br>burning the disk images at too higher speeds.<br><br>FYI I have an AMD 64 dual core 3700+ with 2 gigs of RAM, 2 x 250 gig<br>SATA HDD's<br><br>I tried reburning the ISO image at a lower speed, that didn't work. I
<br>would've thought if there was a problem with the compressed image I'd<br>get an error when the live CD boots ?<br><br>Any thoughts or ideas are appreciated<br><br>Cheers<br>Kai<br></blockquote></div><br>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?
<br><br>mkinitramfs is the tool you need, look under /boot/initrd* -- if it is less than a few megs, there's something wrong.<br><br><br>Tomasz