Kernel Panic on boot from install/live CD

[Brett W.]

Running a Dell Dimension XPS R450 with 256 mb of RAM, a PII processor and a large 5,200 RPM hard drive. When I enter the cd and select run Ubuntu or install, I get:

Uncompressing... booting
[68.928851] PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource (lots of numbers, mostly zeroes)
[68.101268] invalid compressed format (err=1)
[68.105505] Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0)

Occasionally I get past this point and select the install icon from the desktop once it loads. It sometimes freezes and sometimes continues the process of making selections for the install. If the latter, it freezes at some point during the install. The furthest I've gotten in 66%.

[Simon Law (sfllaw)]

Hi Brett,

Could you please type a transcription of the full kernel panic?
This would be very useful in isolating the problem.

Thanks.

[Brett W. (nrbelex)]

I can't replicate the same crash but I'm now getting:

"
Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
[ 75.784898] PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:10000@fd000000 for 0000:01:00.0
"

Hope that helps. I'm gonna try the alternate CD.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

[Brett W. (nrbelex)]

I eventually just used Xubuntu as its more appropriate for the computer anyway. If there's a bug, its probably not worth worrying about since this computer is almost 10 years old. Thanks.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

This bug report is being closed due to your last comment. Thanks again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Feel free to submit any future bugs you may find.