'Freeing Unused Kernel Memory: 224k Freed

nutnut · 10-21-2005, 11:45 AM

Hi,

Trying to install Ubuntu 5.0.4 (from a CD I know works) on a laptop. Unfortunately, when the installation environment is booting, it gets to:

Code:

Freeing unused kernel memory: 224k freed

Then it just stops doing anything - no HDD or CD activity what so ever

.

I've Googled the problem, but it's turned up almost nothing of use.

Any advice you could offer would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards,
James

mma8x · 10-21-2005, 07:09 PM

don't know if it's the same thing or not, but my old thinkpad 570e does this on a soft reboot. thought it was a mandrake thing (says 'kernel panic'), but it hangs with a different message with debian. try doing a hard boot.