install failed after boot. Tried 6.06, 7.04, and 7.10

[realtime]

I made an error and submitted this on a closed bug report.

I have no trouble duplicating this error.

This is the latest attempt.

I attempted to install 7.04, 6.06, and 7.10 with similar results.

This is the result of trying to install 7.10.

Disks are partitioned and formatted ext3 but there are no systems installed.

I received similar errors before I installed SUSE 10.3
SUSE installed itself on the SATA drive. Ubuntu would not install itself on any drive.

There may be data on the drives from running Knoppix, if it does not clean up its files.

There was data on the drive (C drive I think) from saving it while running parted-magic.

This is after I installed SUSE.

Hardware:
cpu 2.4 Mhz
Pri master IDE hard drive 60 gig Hitachi [IC35L060AVER 07-0]
Pri slave Maxtor 20 gig

secondary master ATAPI CD-ROM NEC DVD_RW ND-2500A
secondary slave [Yamaha CRW8824E]

serial ATA 230 or 250 gig appears as a SCSI onboard ATA

Busybox v.1.1.3 (Debian 1:1.1.3-5ubuntu7) Built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of commands.

(initramfs) [67.041241] ata2.01: exception Emask 0x0 Sact 0x0 Serr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen

[67.041296] ata2.01:cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 tag 0 cdb 0x5a data 128 in

etc., etc.

[Andrea Corbellini (andrea.corbellini)]

Converted to question.