[wellylug] Ubuntu troubles install

[Jonathan Harker]

e.chalaron at xtra.co.nz wrote:
> Back from holidays and still stucked with my AMD64 and trying (desperately) to install Ubuntu AMD64 Server.
> Bascially the install does crash whatever the Ubuntu (desktop, server, 64 or not).
> I end up with a kernel problem, not syncing VFS or something.

We need more information than that.

However, I've become reasonably good at telepathy lately - sounds like a
kernel panic. Does it look something like this:

Kernel Panic: Not syncing VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block

If so, it means you've installed Linux on a partition that it can't read
for some reason.

How have/did you set up your hard disk partitions?

If you're dual-booting with Windows on the same hard disk, you'll need
to shrink your C: partition (which will be either NTFS or FAT32) and
create a new partition for Linux.

Since you're having problems, keep it simple and create a 512 MB swap
partition and an ext3 partition for / (ext3 is the least exotic and most
well-tested filesystem type). Forget about more elaborate set ups for
now, see if you can get it working first.

For instance:

DEVICE      FILESYSTEM   MOUNT-POINT
/dev/hda1   ntfs         /c
/dev/hda2   swap         swap
/dev/hda3   ext3         /

J