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Re: Failure to boot

strummer20 — Mon Sep 13, 2010 9:24 pm

Author: strummer20

Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 9:24 pm

Thanks Wyliecoyoteuk and Rhakios, you might well be onto something there as it was MINT 8 I was trying to install and I think that was based on UBUNTU 9.10

Re: Failure to boot

Rhakios — Mon Sep 13, 2010 9:08 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 9:08 pm

A similar error message was commonly seen in Ubuntu 9.10 for some users, there were a variety of solutions, from disabling the memory hole in the BIOS setup (could be called memory mapping in some BIOSes) to disconnecting USB drives. Depending on which version of Mint you are trying it could be based on 9.10.
Normally an initrd is not likely to be too big unless you compile your own kernel and create a custom initrd.

Re: Failure to boot

wyliecoyoteuk — Mon Sep 13, 2010 9:06 pm

Author: wyliecoyoteuk

Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 9:06 pm

Odd, initrd is the initial ram disk.
The OS creates a ram disk and loads the kernel into it to speed up booting.

this post says that it is due to BIOS setting.
the setting is for compatibility with old video cards.

Re: Failure to boot

strummer20 — Mon Sep 13, 2010 8:56 pm

Author: strummer20

Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 8:56 pm

I have 2 g of memory,and I let the installer set the partitions on a 200 g hardrive.javascript:emoticon('')

Re: Failure to boot

strummer20 — Mon Sep 13, 2010 8:54 pm

Author: strummer20

Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 8:54 pm

Thanks for taking an interest in my problem but

Re: Failure to boot

wyliecoyoteuk — Mon Sep 13, 2010 8:30 am

Author: wyliecoyoteuk

Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 8:30 am

Might be too little memory.

Re: Failure to boot

Dutch_Master — Mon Sep 13, 2010 2:17 am

Author: Dutch_Master

Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 2:17 am

I suspect you've set your partitions too small. Allow at least 10 GB for Linux if you install it to a single partition. If you decide to have a separate /boot partition, make that at least 200 MB, preferably double.

Failure to boot

strummer20 — Sun Sep 12, 2010 10:25 pm

Author: strummer20

Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 10:25 pm

HELP! Can anyone advise me? I am fairly new to linux and when i install linux mint it fails to boot, I just get an error message "initrid is too bid. failed to boot default entries." even though I can run the live disc without problems.