Can't Install xubuntu, lubuntu nor ubuntu

[mawil1013]

My Specs;
Desktop PC, Tiger Direct, Firefly BCD.
Mother board; PC Chips M758LT - ID 9039E90F31D926C3.
Intel Celeron 1.3 GHz x86 Family 6 Model 11 Stepping 1.
Bios; American Megatrends Inc., 062710, 7/15/1997
SMBIOS Ver. 2.3
Memory; 512 MB
Master HD 20MB half full with 40MB Slave HD.
WinXP service pack 3 and all updates are current, with one glitch, system will not 'restart' have to press off button, then have to press off button twice again to start XP running again.

Tried to run off CD using xubuntu, Lubuntu 11.04 and Unbuntu 11.04. A page of errors covers the screen, I have a photo attached which I hope you can download and zoom in on.

It starts out with,
570.240718 Kernal panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

570.24786 Pid:1, comm:init not tainted 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu.... :(

Regards, Michael A

I'm going to mark this as solved. I have to add a 40mb hard drive and make it master and make 20mb hd the slave and add 2 - 256 ram instead of 128 memory. I have an issue where xp will not reboot so i intend to format both hd's and try to install 10.04.2 from cd for a full install, no windows. I will report back.

[sanderj]

Did you Google "kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!". Quite good information on possible causes and solutions.

[kerry_s]

My Specs;
Desktop PC, Tiger Direct, Firefly BCD.
Mother board; PC Chips M758LT - ID 9039E90F31D926C3.
Intel Celeron 1.3 GHz x86 Family 6 Model 11 Stepping 1.
Bios; American Megatrends Inc., 062710, 7/15/1997
SMBIOS Ver. 2.3
Memory; 512 MB
Master HD 20MB half full with 40MB Slave HD.
WinXP service pack 3 and all updates are current, with one glitch, system will not 'restart' have to press off button, then have to press off button twice again to start XP running again.

Tried to run off CD using xubuntu, Lubuntu 11.04 and Unbuntu 11.04. A page of errors covers the screen, I have a photo attached which I hope you can download and zoom in on.

It starts out with,
570.240718 Kernal panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

570.24786 Pid:1, comm:init not tainted 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu.... :(

Regards, Michael A

sounds like a bad burn to me, you need to burn slow 4x is the best. use the check disk when it first boots, press enter

[mawil1013]

I used 3 versions on 3 disks with all the same issue.

[kerry_s]

I used 3 versions on 3 disks with all the same issue.

What did the check disk say?