[wellylug] Ubuntu troubles install

[e.chalaron at xtra.co.nz]

Hi Jonathan 
I eventually went to install windows to wipe off anything on this HD...
HD is buggered ... even NTFS cant be formatted...
Back to the beginning then and HD to the supplier, bought in July ...

Cheers
E

---- Jonathan Harker <jon at jon.geek.nz> wrote: 
> 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
> 
> 
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