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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">said the main problems installing was with xorg configuration and lvm</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Tomasz Grzegurzko <tomasz89@gmail.com><BR>To: plug@plug.org.au<BR>Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 9:43:58 AM<BR>Subject: Re: [plug] Ubuntu 7.04<BR><BR>On 4/25/07, <B class=gmail_sendername>Kai</B> <<A href="mailto:vk6ksj@westnet.com.au" target=_blank rel=nofollow>vk6ksj@westnet.com.au</A>> wrote:
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<BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">'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
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