Problems when installing Linux on Microsoft Virtual PC


Hi all,

I am a relative newbie when it comes to Linux, so please go slowly with
me :)

I have (apparently successfully) installed the Fedora 2.6.9-1.667
distribution into a Virtual PC. I say "apparently successful" because
the entire (graphical) installation process completed without incident.

This uses grub as the boot-loader.

(1) The start of the boot process (including the first of the errors)
looks something like this :

Booting 'Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667)'

root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x155da5]
initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
[Linux-initrd @ 0x7ef3000, oxec00e bytes]

Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
audit(1138175330.804:0): initialized
isapnp: checksum for device 1 is not valid (0x80)
isapnp: checksum for device 2 is not valid (0xbe)
....

(2) Further along the boot up process, I am getting multiple errors of
the form :

/etc/init.d/functions: line 381: 542 Segmentation fault ........

(3) It culminates in errors of the form :

INIT: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

where x appears to be any number between 1 and 7.

Any help appreciated.

regards,
Andrew Fortune

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