Two separate attempts to install ubuntu resulted in the same error. dmesg: [4294667.296000] Linux version 2.6.15-23-386 (buildd@rothera) (gcc version 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)) #1 PREEMPT Tue May 23 13:49:40 UTC 2006 [4294667.296000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map: [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f400 (usable) [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009f400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000e7000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000002fffdc00 (usable) [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 000000002fffdc00 - 000000002ffffc00 (ACPI data) [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 000000002ffffc00 - 0000000030000000 (ACPI NVS) [4294667.296000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fffe7000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) [4294667.296000] 0MB HIGHMEM available. [4294667.296000] 767MB LOWMEM available. [4294667.296000] On node 0 totalpages: 196605 [4294667.296000] DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0 [4294667.296000] DMA32 zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0 [4294667.296000] Normal zone: 192509 pages, LIFO batch:31 [4294667.296000] HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0 [4294667.296000] DMI 2.1 present. [4294667.296000] ACPI: RSDP (v000 PTLTD ) @ 0x000f6b00 [4294667.296000] ACPI: RSDT (v001 PTLTD RSDT 0x00000000 PTL 0x01000000) @ 0x2fffdd5d [4294667.296000] ACPI: FADT (v001 INTEL SEATTLE2 0x19990714 PTL 0x000f4240) @ 0x2ffffb8c [4294667.296000] ACPI: DSDT (v001 Intel S2440BX 0x00000000 MSFT 0x01000004) @ 0x00000000 [4294667.296000] ACPI: BIOS age (1999) fails cutoff (2000), acpi=force is required to enable ACPI [4294667.296000] ACPI: Disabling ACPI support [4294667.296000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 40000000 (gap: 30000000:cffe7000) [4294667.296000] Built 1 zonelists [4294667.296000] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=1048576 root=/dev/ram rw quiet splash -- [4294667.296000] Local APIC disabled by BIOS (or by default) -- you can enable it with "lapic" [4294667.296000] mapped APIC to ffffd000 (01603000) [4294667.296000] Initializing CPU#0 [4294667.296000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes) [ 0.000000] Detected 449.081 MHz processor. [ 43.622873] Using tsc for high-res timesource [ 43.624413] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 [ 43.627188] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) [ 43.630482] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) [ 43.736549] Memory: 768692k/786420k available (1976k kernel code, 17112k reserved, 606k data, 288k init, 0k highmem) [ 43.736566] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. [ 43.795889] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 898.87 BogoMIPS (lpj=449437) [ 43.796013] Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized [ 43.796044] SELinux: Disabled at boot. [ 43.796099] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 [ 43.796447] CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0387f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 43.796479] CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0387f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 43.796513] CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K [ 43.796525] CPU: L2 cache: 512K [ 43.796534] CPU serial number disabled. [ 43.796544] CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000040 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 43.796607] mtrr: v2.0 (20020519) [ 43.796625] CPU: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 03 [ 43.796641] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. [ 43.796651] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. [ 43.796666] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. [ 43.800549] checking if image is initramfs... it is [ 47.398020] Freeing initrd memory: 6838k freed [ 47.439466] NET: Registered protocol family 16 [ 47.439579] EISA bus registered [ 47.439978] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9b4, last bus=1 [ 47.440001] PCI: Using configuration type 1 [ 47.441560] ACPI: Subsystem revision 20051216 [ 47.441570] ACPI: Interpreter disabled. [ 47.441583] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay [ 47.441610] pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled [ 47.441625] PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support... [ 47.441680] PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00f6b80 [ 47.441695] PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0x9e5e, dseg 0x400 [ 47.450965] PnPBIOS: 18 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 18 recorded by driver [ 47.451017] PCI: Probing PCI hardware [ 47.451036] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) [ 47.451591] PCI quirk: region 8000-803f claimed by PIIX4 ACPI [ 47.451606] PCI quirk: region 7000-700f claimed by PIIX4 SMB [ 47.452345] Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0 [ 47.454716] PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/7110] at 0000:00:07.0 [ 47.457763] pnp: 00:00: ioport range 0x370-0x371 has been reserved [ 47.457807] pnp: 00:0a: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved [ 47.457821] pnp: 00:0a: ioport range 0x8000-0x803f has been reserved [ 47.457835] pnp: 00:0a: ioport range 0x7000-0x700f has been reserved [ 47.458888] PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:20000@fc000000 for 0000:01:00.0 [ 47.458959] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0 [ 47.458967] IO window: disabled. [ 47.458982] MEM window: f1000000-f1ffffff [ 47.458995] PREFETCH window: f8000000-fbffffff [ 47.461282] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) [ 47.461316] audit(1157373305.505:1): initialized [ 47.461713] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 [ 47.461802] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) [ 47.461991] Initializing Cryptographic API [ 47.462010] io scheduler noop registered [ 47.462036] io scheduler anticipatory registered [ 47.462080] io scheduler deadline registered [ 47.462124] io scheduler cfq registered [ 47.462138] Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers. [ 47.462771] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... [ 47.821182] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found [ 47.906463] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303,PNP0f13] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12 [ 47.922156] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 [ 47.923984] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 [ 47.924173] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 48 ports, IRQ sharing enabled [ 47.925095] serial8250: ttyS3 at I/O 0x2e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A [ 47.938283] pnp: Device 00:0e activated. [ 47.938671] 00:0e: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A [ 47.942480] pnp: Device 00:0f activated. [ 47.942853] 00:0f: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A [ 47.945420] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 1048576K size 1024 blocksize [ 47.945644] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 [ 47.945660] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx [ 47.946209] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice [ 47.948598] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0 [ 47.948622] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 1 [ 47.948666] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 7 [ 47.948677] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 8 [ 47.948686] EISA: Detected 0 cards. [ 47.948867] NET: Registered protocol family 2 [ 47.959994] IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) [ 47.961542] TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) [ 47.966460] TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) [ 47.968919] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536) [ 47.968936] TCP reno registered [ 47.969314] TCP bic registered [ 47.969348] NET: Registered protocol family 1 [ 47.969375] NET: Registered protocol family 8 [ 47.969384] NET: Registered protocol family 20 [ 47.969458] Using IPI Shortcut mode [ 47.969603] Freeing unused kernel memory: 288k freed [ 47.987932] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0 [ 48.204301] vga16fb: initializing [ 48.204329] vga16fb: mapped to 0xc00a0000 [ 48.350947] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x25 [ 48.350967] fb0: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device [ 49.546156] Capability LSM initialized [ 51.367468] PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1 [ 51.367512] PIIX4: chipset revision 1 [ 51.367522] PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later [ 51.367550] ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1000-0x1007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA [ 51.367592] ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1008-0x100f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA [ 51.367621] Probing IDE interface ide0... [ 51.631125] hda: Maxtor 4R120L0, ATA DISK drive [ 52.038918] hdb: HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8162B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive [ 52.092229] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 [ 52.093130] Probing IDE interface ide1... [ 52.764541] hdc: BENQ DVD DD DW1620, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive [ 53.478197] hdd: ATAPI CDRW 52X32, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive [ 53.529692] ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 [ 53.577823] hda: max request size: 128KiB [ 53.608161] hda: 240121728 sectors (122942 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(33) [ 53.608344] hda: cache flushes supported [ 53.608476] hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 [ 53.676229] hdb: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, UDMA(33) [ 53.676282] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 [ 53.736780] hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) [ 53.749660] hdd: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2083kB Cache, UDMA(33) [ 54.254522] usbcore: registered new driver usbfs [ 54.255489] usbcore: registered new driver hub [ 54.265950] PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:0e.2 (0114 -> 0116) [ 54.265976] PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:0e.2 [ 54.265998] PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:07.2 [ 54.266023] PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:10.0 [ 54.266060] ehci_hcd 0000:00:0e.2: EHCI Host Controller [ 54.291987] ehci_hcd 0000:00:0e.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 [ 54.292022] ehci_hcd 0000:00:0e.2: irq 9, io mem 0xf0000400 [ 54.292048] ehci_hcd 0000:00:0e.2: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004 [ 54.299793] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found [ 54.299842] hub 1-0:1.0: 5 ports detected [ 54.335195] ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394' [ 54.515631] ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI) [ 54.516593] PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:0e.0 (0114 -> 0116) [ 54.516615] PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:0e.0 [ 54.516682] ohci_hcd 0000:00:0e.0: OHCI Host Controller [ 54.517275] ohci_hcd 0000:00:0e.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 [ 54.517309] ohci_hcd 0000:00:0e.0: irq 10, io mem 0xf0001000 [ 54.525282] USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.3 [ 54.526305] PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:07.2 [ 54.526339] PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:0e.2 [ 54.526354] PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:10.0 [ 54.526383] uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: UHCI Host Controller [ 54.527052] uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 [ 54.527083] uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: irq 9, io base 0x00001020 [ 54.528238] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found [ 54.528284] hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected [ 54.629978] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found [ 54.630028] hub 2-0:1.0: 3 ports detected [ 54.730890] PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:0e.1 (0114 -> 0116) [ 54.730911] PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:0e.1 [ 54.730946] PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:0f.0 [ 54.730993] ohci_hcd 0000:00:0e.1: OHCI Host Controller [ 54.731470] ohci_hcd 0000:00:0e.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4 [ 54.731502] ohci_hcd 0000:00:0e.1: irq 9, io mem 0xf0002000 [ 54.813358] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found [ 54.813422] hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected [ 54.834380] usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 [ 54.921538] ohci1394: $Rev: 1313 $ Ben Collins