Cannot install, hangs after "Freeing initrd memory: xxxxk freed"
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu |
Invalid
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Medium
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Brian Murray |
Bug Description
From support request: https:/
This is taken almost verbatim from the following thread:
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I am not able to install from any kind of live/install cd. I have tried the following cds to no avail:
Dapper Install
Breezy Install(stamped)
Breezy Live(stamped)
Hoary Install(stamped)
Hoary Live(stamped)
Gentoo Live
Knoppix Live
None of these will get past a certain point in the kernel loading process. Usually the system hangs somewhere around when the CPU is stepping is detected, the 'hlt' procedure is tested, or the system checks if the image is initrd. In almost every case, it seems to be immediately after the message "Freeing initrd memory: xxxxk freed." It then just stops outputting messages and will not continue.
However, if I use any version of a Slackware install cd, everything works just fine using the default bare.i kernel, and even with the test26.s kernel.
I have tried various options in ubuntu, but none of them seem to have much of an effect. They may change the line that it hangs on a little, but it still hangs. I have also tried the 'failsafe' option in knoppix which apparently turns just about everything off, but no go.
I'm on an Iwill MPX2 with only one Athlon XP 1600+.
Waiting for instructions.
Which Dapper Flight or Alpha version(s) did you test with?