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General => Installation issues => Topic started by: brononius on July 13, 2011, 07:38:26 pm

Title: Installation drops direct to initramfs
Post by: brononius on July 13, 2011, 07:38:26 pm: Hey,

When i'm trying one of the latest versions (24147 & 24164), the installation stops almost directly into a prompt 'initramfs'. The only thing i can choose is the language and the next question (linuxmce, kubuntu...). I tried linuxmce or kubuntu, but both give the same result.
When i take an old version (fe 24012), the installation starts without any problem.

Any idea what goes wrong?
Title: Re: Installation drops direct to initramfs
Post by: tkmedia on July 13, 2011, 07:48:48 pm: The snap shots that are larger than 4.gb seem to be failing.
try 24164-2nd.... worked for me.

HTH

Tim
Title: Re: Installation drops direct to initramfs
Post by: bongowongo on July 13, 2011, 07:57:33 pm: Correct, that is an error

Check
http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Snapshot_overview
for working snapshots
Title: Re: Installation drops direct to initramfs
Post by: brononius on July 14, 2011, 05:40:51 pm: Couldn't find the 24164-2nd.
So i tried it with the 24161-2nd. But this fails as well.

Now downloading the 24164 (the normal / first one?). And will try it with that one.
Hope this one will go, almost through my empty dvd's... :-X

ps the USB-keyboard isn't working on all the latest versions for me. But a PS works..
Title: Re: Installation drops direct to initramfs
Post by: huh on July 15, 2011, 05:59:49 am: Latest one failed with initramfs error....

LinuxMCE-8.10-24189-i386.iso 14-Jul-2011 00:19 4.1G
Title: Re: Installation drops direct to initramfs
Post by: bongowongo on July 15, 2011, 02:03:56 pm: Try this one
LinuxMCE-8.10-24098-i386.iso 23-Jun-2011 08:23 3.7G

I maintain this page for a purpose
http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Snapshot_overview
Title: Re: Installation drops direct to initramfs
Post by: purps on July 15, 2011, 06:20:50 pm: Quote from: bongowongo on July 15, 2011, 02:03:56 pm
Try this one
LinuxMCE-8.10-24098-i386.iso 23-Jun-2011 08:23 3.7G

I maintain this page for a purpose
http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Snapshot_overview

In my case asterisk and mythtv did not install properly with this snapshot, tried several times over several days. Downloading 24164 to try next.

I wish I'd checked the sources.list on my botched installs; saw a post about that recently.

Cheers,
Matt.
Title: Re: Installation drops direct to initramfs
Post by: QthePirate on July 15, 2011, 08:40:18 pm: I can verify that 24189 fails for me as well. Still working on getting it installed.

I had an issue with my network driver not mainlined in the 8.10 kernel.

*My status may say first post, but I am Ubuntu Savvy (Server clusters, car computer, etc.)*
Title: Re: Installation drops direct to initramfs
Post by: huh on July 21, 2011, 06:07:32 am: 24234 got past the initial screens and made it to the formatting of my harddrive before failing out on a grub-install failure on HD0 if I remember correctly. I see that 24237 is now post- anyone try this one? If not, I may try tomorrow (7/21) and post similar to this. I know the wiki is there for a reason, but I can't get 24098 to install either... just bought a new dvd cake, so currently at 99 left.
Title: Re: Installation drops direct to initramfs
Post by: bongowongo on July 21, 2011, 08:25:27 am: LinuxMCE-8.10-24234-i386.iso works
No drops to ititramfs

Installs correctly didn't update the wiki yet.

Will now test LinuxMCE-8.10-24237-i386.iso

Keep in mind the deb.linuxmce.org was offline yesterday so installations weren't possible anyway.