I'm impressed to "meet" someone who was programming in 1885. I want to buy you a beer! Welcome to the list! Let us know your solution... Eric On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Charles Jones < charles.jones@ciscolearning.org> wrote: > Dennis wrote: > > I new to the list. I am trying to install Ubuntu in Windows. My > > computer is XP Home SP3, AMD Athlon XP 2500+ 1.83 GHz, 1 GB of RAM. > > > > I have tried a Live CD once & Wubi-8.04.1-rev506 twice. When I reboot > > or cold boot I get (initramfs) in BuzyBox. I tried booting different > > ways and it seams to be stopping after "JFS: nTxBlock = 8088, nTxBlock > > = 64707". Any ideas to fix this? > Saw someone have this problem just yesterday...adding "acpi=off" to the > boot parameters did the trick. When you boot the Ubuntu install CD, hit > F6 "Other Options" and at the end of the line add " acpi=off" and hit > enter. > > Here is a page that has some screenshots: > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions > > -Charles > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >