Obsidian Posted May 5, 2005 Report Share Posted May 5, 2005 Dun Dun Dun... Ok, so...What could be the problem. I put the CD in to CD-ROM drive, I reboot the computer, I watch the bios prompt to boot from CD-ROM....and then....LE2005 intial boot menu comes up (F1 other options - ENTER install or upgrade). I press enter...The CRAZY TUX IMPOSTER is displayed and a progress bar is displayed...it takes a while before it starts moving...but eventually it does. About one third of the way, the installer yells at me and says "FATAL ERROR, FAILED TO INITIALIZE". I looked at the log and couldn't really get any intelligent information out of it. Last I remember, it tried to do an fopen but the file it wanted to open wasn't there...so a simple FAILED was displayed and ....yeah. I will try it again and get as much information as I can out of the log. Any help would be appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted May 5, 2005 Report Share Posted May 5, 2005 md5sum check OK? Any irregularities on this computer previously? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obsidian Posted May 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2005 Well...I was able to install it after trying a couple of the F1 more options. I did the LOW RES install and it appeared to have STOPED without error but the mouse still moved. I then rebooted and tried the nomal res install after going to the F1 option...and IT WORKED! It took about 1 and a half hours to do the upgrade after that. I don't know what was going on. It gave me that error about 4 times before I went to the F1 option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papaschtroumpf Posted May 5, 2005 Report Share Posted May 5, 2005 I got that error when trying to install in virtual-PC but worked fine in VMWare, then worked fin when I did the real install off the HD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kompact Posted May 5, 2005 Report Share Posted May 5, 2005 Maybe just a bad burn? Have you tried to reburn the iso on a new disc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obsidian Posted May 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2005 No need to ;) It's installed. I don't care about the disks anymore except for rpms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest craig helm Posted August 27, 2005 Report Share Posted August 27, 2005 I would just like to add that I had a similar problem and after doing a checksum (identical) I did a reburn and everything worked fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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