Its not clear to me if you are booting from the Live CD, or from your hard drive. If from your hard drive, then it sounds like you might have a garbled grub entry. Look at /boot/grub/menu.lst and make sure the 'kernel' line looks something like:
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.20-13-generic root=UUID=1d2edee6-985a-4908 -b06b-42c460fbb075 ro quiet splash -- cannot install 7.04-herd5 (sata problems) https://launchpad.net/bugs/90715 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
