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My apologies if I've overlooked the answer elsewhere on this board. I have spent the last almost two weeks on and off trying to resolve this issue: can't successfully boot up hard drive after indication of 'successful installation' from live media disk. Every attempt gives me the trace run ending with the Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed error message. I have attempted as many of the Grub parameter alterations as I have come across as possible fixes to no avail. I am thoroughly comfortable working with Ubuntu. I have installed Ubuntu on laptops in the past both as a dual boot with Windows and as a standalone OS with no problems prior to this.

My hardware: Dell Inspiron 1501 with Sempron 3500+, 2GB RAM, 60GB hard drive, with Ubuntu 13.10 the only OS installed.

My pastebin file: http://paste.ubuntu.com/7231541/

I refuse to give up! Please help me! Thanks in advance for any help!

Note: don't mind admitting that I may be overlooking something simple. Therefore, if there is someone who knows for SURE how to resolve this issue, please break it down in a step-by-step way for the benefit of anyone else besides myself. Thanks!

karel
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Well that sounds bad but you would need to do three things to make sure.

  1. With the LiveCD run the Memtest option in the main LiveCD boot menu. This app will test to make sure your memory is OK. More information about it in Can I use Ubuntu to diagnose hard drive or RAM problems in Windows?

  2. Next, if you can boot to the LiveCD Desktop (Run Ubuntu without installing it). You can run the Disk utility to check the SMART of the hard drive.

  3. If the 2 options above are OK we then download from another PC another ISO image and burn it in another CD/DVD with write check. With this new burned CD/DVD we will install Ubuntu from scratch again.

This are the 3 cases where I got the dreaded Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed error. The first time I got this, I tried to install Ubuntu 3 o 4 more times before giving up. Most of the time is a faulty burned CD image. Followed by bad memory. Lastly a faulty HDD.

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Luis Alvarado
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Your pastebin file shows that there is a "Invalid System Disk... Disk I/O Error..." at line number 752. So, I suspect that there is a faulty HDD issue. Try checking your hard disk by installing another OS or checking the disk.

Note: I am not an Ubuntu expert but I noticed something in you pastebin file and hence, thought it would be nice to bring in to notice.

Devesh Khandelwal
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