Attached are the contents of syslog. On about line 522, you see that a script /var/lib/dpkg/info/file-preseed.postinst makes a call to 'mountfloppy', which isn't found. Jan 26 22:30:19 syslogd started: BusyBox v1.00-pre10 (Debian 20040623-1ubuntu22) Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: klogd started: BusyBox v1.00-pre10 (Debian 20040623-1ubuntu22) Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] Linux version 2.6.12-9-386 (buildd@rothera) (gcc version 3.4.5 20050809 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 3.4.4-6ubuntu8)) #1 Mon Oct 10 13:14:36 BST 2005 Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map: Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable) Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000ff75000 (usable) Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 000000000ff75000 - 000000000ff77000 (ACPI NVS) Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 000000000ff77000 - 000000000ff98000 (ACPI data) Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 000000000ff98000 - 0000000010000000 (reserved) Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved) Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee10000 (reserved) Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] 0MB HIGHMEM available. Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] 255MB LOWMEM available. Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] found SMP MP-table at 000fe710 Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] On node 0 totalpages: 65397 Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1 Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] Normal zone: 61301 pages, LIFO batch:31 Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1 Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] DMI 2.3 present. Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: RSDP (v000 DELL ) @ 0x000feb90 Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: RSDT (v001 DELL 4550 0x00000006 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fd4f6 Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: FADT (v001 DELL 4550 0x00000006 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fd52e Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: SSDT (v001 DELL st_ex 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0xfffd0a4e Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: MADT (v001 DELL 4550 0x00000006 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fd5a2 Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: BOOT (v001 DELL 4550 0x00000006 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fd60e Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: ASF! (v016 DELL 4550 0x00000006 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fd636 Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: DSDT (v001 DELL dt_ex 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000 Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808 Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000 Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] Processor #0 15:2 APIC version 20 Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x01] disabled) Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x03] lapic_id[0x01] disabled) Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x04] lapic_id[0x03] disabled) Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x01] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0]) Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 1, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23 Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl) Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level) Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: IRQ0 used by override. Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: IRQ2 used by override. Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] ACPI: IRQ9 used by override. Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 10000000 (gap: 10000000:eec00000) Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] Built 1 zonelists Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] Kernel command line: preseed/file=/floppy/default.cfg vga=normal initrd=/install/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=16384 root=/dev/rd/0 rw -- BOOT_IMAGE=/install/vmlinuz Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000) Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000) Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] Initializing CPU#0 Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 16384 bytes) Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] Detected 1994.218 MHz processor. Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] Using pmtmr for high-res timesource Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.296000] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.335000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.335000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: m) Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.341000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.342000] Calibrating delay loop... 3948.54 BogoMIPS (lpj=1974272) Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.364000] Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.364000] SELinux: Disabled at boot. Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.364000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.364000] CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000400 00000000 00000000 Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.364000] CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000400 00000000 00000000 Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.364000] CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.364000] CPU: L2 cache: 512K Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.364000] CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000080 00000400 00000000 00000000 Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.364000] CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz stepping 07 Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.364000] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.364000] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.364000] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.368000] Checking for popad bug... OK. Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.368000] checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.616000] Freeing initrd memory: 3963k freed Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.623000] ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initrd... not found! Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.669000] not found! Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.704000] ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.704000] ..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=-1 Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.815000] NET: Registered protocol family 16 Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.815000] EISA bus registered Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.815000] ACPI: bus type pci registered Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.828000] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfbe6d, last bus=2 Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.828000] PCI: Using configuration type 1 Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.828000] mtrr: v2.0 (20020519) Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.829000] ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050729 Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.868000] ACPI: Interpreter enabled Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.868000] ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.873000] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00) Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.873000] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.873000] ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] segment is 0 Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.873000] ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] bus is 0 Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.886000] PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1 Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.886000] Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0 Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.887000] PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0 Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.921000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.928000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI1._PRT] Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.948000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 15) Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.949000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 15) Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.950000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 12 15) Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.951000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 15) Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.951000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 15) Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.952000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15) *0, disabled. Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.953000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15) *0, disabled. Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.954000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15) Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.954000] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.954000] pnp: PnP ACPI init Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.985000] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 11 devices Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.985000] PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.985000] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294667.985000] PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294668.000000] pnp: 00:0a: ioport range 0x800-0x85f could not be reserved Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294668.000000] pnp: 00:0a: ioport range 0xc00-0xc7f has been reserved Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294668.000000] pnp: 00:0a: ioport range 0x860-0x8ff could not be reserved Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294668.001000] Simple Boot Flag value 0x87 read from CMOS RAM was invalid Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294668.001000] Simple Boot Flag at 0x7a set to 0x1 Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294668.001000] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294668.001000] audit: initialized Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294668.001000] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) Jan 26 22:30:19 kernel: [4294668.001000] devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (