Comment 6 for bug 78380

With one of my computers I have the same problem.
It installs Dapper and Edgy (and any other distro I tried) without a problem.
Feisty Live CD does not boot however, which I now think is related to initramfs, which I think (not know) replaces
initrd. Sorry if I am mistaken in this.
Without quiet and splash I get on booting (hand copied):

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[65.733286] hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-Rom driver, 128 kB Cache, DMA
[65.733671] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
cp: unable to open 'root/var/log/': No such file or directory
Done
Begin: Running /scripts/unit-bottom...
mount: Mounting /root/dev/ in /dev/.static/dev failed: no such file or directory
Done
mount: ............ : No such file or directory
.......
.......
target system doesn't have /sbin/init

Replacing the CD-ROM drive with another one did not change this, except now a
ATAPI 24X CD-Rom was found.

Replacing the NIC did not help either (it was due anyway, as it already did not
work well in Edgy).

I have downloaded the alternate CD and this seems to work, I could check it for errors,
and it is now checking the memory of my system, already one pass without finding an error.

A short description of my system:

MB chipset: Aladdin 5
Processor: AMD K6-2 501.2 MHz
Memory: 320 MiB, 217 MiB/s

I sincerely hope this will help you correct this bug, which, as I already said, seems to
be related to initramfs

Jaap