I will withdraw this report. As I made clear in the original report, I could not install Gutsy Gibbon from CD on this machine. This was the failure that was not understood.
Now over a year later, I have done complete install from CD, of 8.10 Intrepid Ibex. However, before I did so, I had found bad blocks on the system partition, and mapped them out with mke2fs -c. So now, I cannot rule out that there were bad block problems with that first installation, and indeed, since such weird behaviour could be expected in a system installation on top of bad blocks, I have to suspect that this was the cause of the original problem. You might consider putting the possibility of bad blocks, and how to check for them, in a troubleshooting page for system installations. In fact, it might be good to somehow put this check into the installer itself (I think I've seen such things in other installers). Cheers! Pardon my testiness! -- 7.10 install: "Invalid or corrupt kernel image" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/155430 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
