Installing Ubuntu massive error!

[Spyderkid]

Hello i'm trying to install Ubuntu 10.04 from a disc I have Ubuntu 10.10 (but I don't like it)

I have the live CD no defects so I Install Ubuntu and all this comes up (doesn't look good)

(process: 243): GLib-WARNING**: getpwid_r( ): failed due to un-known user id (0) stdin: error 0

(LOADS AND LOADS OF CODE AND ERRORS AT THE END OF EACH LINE)

No init found. Try passing init= bootrag.
BusyBox v1.13.3 (Ubuntu 1.1.13.3-1Ubuntu11)built-in shell(ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built in commands. 

(initramfs)_

What can I do to help make Ubuntu 10.04 install?


Cheers!

[yancek]

You have Ubuntu 10.10 and want to go back to 10.04, correct?
Are you keeping 10.10 and installing 10.04 on a separate partition?
Do you have other operating systems on the computer?
You know the CD has no defects because you have used it successfully?
At what point in the installation do you get this message?

[Spyderkid]

I've removed all OS's appart from *cough* windows xp *cough* and I want to install 10.10 but it has the same errors

[elija]

Do you know what graphics card you have?

Apparently pressing ctrl + alt + sysrq

and typing REISUB
will reboot and get round the issue for the time being...

If you then get to a login screen, press ctlr + alt + f1 to drop to a terminal and run the following commands to update


sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Other people are saying that the message is completely harmless and not related to the failure to boot. One person said the running sudo update-grub or sudu update-grub2 fixed it but you still need to get to the command line

[elija]

It might also be worth editing the boot command line (hitting e in the boot screen) and disabling quiet and splash options to see if you get a more meaningful message

[Rubberman]

Sometimes, installing one version over another like this leads to weird problems. My advice is to boot into the live CD/DVD, run fdisk on the drive and delete ALL the partitions, save, reboot into the CD/DVD and run the installer from scratch.

[Spyderkid]

Ah I'm not sure if you understood this but I decided to start clean get rid of Linux and then because Linux didn't install this time because of the error (I'm not sure what went wrong to make it so I couldn't install) so now I have xp and I am trying to install Ubuntu 10.10.

I dont know what type of graphics card I have but it defiantly is more than 5 years old maybe more

I'll try the things that you all said

[yancek]

I dont know what type of graphics card I have but it defiantly is more than 5 years old maybe more

From a terminal run command: lspci | grep -i vga

[Spyderkid]

Sorry if I didn't get this across but I can't get up a terminal cant get up login screen either.

The furthest I get in installing or running without installing is getting to the Ubuntu screen with the dots underneath it then after a while the error comes up like i mentioned before...

 (process: 243): GLib-WARNING**: getpwid_r( ): failed due to un-known user id (0) stdin: error 0

(LOADS AND LOADS OF CODE WITH ERRORS ABOUT INPUT/OUTPUT FAILURES)

No init found. Try passing init= bootrag.
BusyBox v1.13.3 (Ubuntu 1.1.13.3-1Ubuntu11)built-in shell(ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built in commands. 

(initramfs)_

[elija]

From the live CD boot screen do the following:

Press F6
Press Esc
Use the backspace key to remove the words quiet and splash
Press enter

Hopefully you will see a more meaningful error message