Install process

Did you MD5 test the ISO you downloaded?
Did you check the USB for consistency?
Did you test your RAM?
How did you put the image onto the USB device?

Thanks

1. I do not have the knowledge to do the MD5 test you speak of, is there a
utility I can download?
2. Same for the USB question?
3. It's new; but I think I notice an option in the install process to do
this, I'll run that and get back with the results.
I think I remember running it when trying to install the 10.04 release and
it was good, I will do again.
I have noticed post on the web stating that there are either bad sections on
a drive or just plain bad drives. I am thinking of reinstalling the drive
and then run test on it from the USB trial version, should give me some
answers.
4. I used "Universal- usb-Installer-1.8.1.7.exe pointed to the iso file
ubunto-10.10-desktop-i386.iso' 709,792kb 10/28/2010 09:06PM

Thanks

You can you the md5sum utility on Linux or the md5summer in Windows:

http://www.md5summer.org/

Sometimes when you have problem with the Ubuntu installation it helps to switch to the Ubuntu Alternate CD. It can bypass most hardware incompatibilities.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM

I was on the road for a few days so was unable to reply to some of the
suggestions. What I have done is this:
1.Tested my hd's
2. Tested my memory both during the install and when it attempts to boot
3. Discovered and looked at the script that it is using to "TRY" and boot
4. noticed something that has been displayed from day one; but I had no idea
of it's meaning or what to do about it. Initially it was displayed and gone
before I could really log it into my brain; but because of the looking at
the start up script and 'ctrl x' to boot it went a little slower and gave me
more opportunity to interact with the problems this thing is encountering.
"KERNAL PANIC- not syncing NO INIT FOUND try passing init=opt to kernal"
This answers a lot for me, the install program has setup some sort of boot
script that is (pardom the expression) POOP!
5. New question "Is there a basic boot configuration file I can give this
thing to at least get a kernal loaded? Oh, I also ran a graphics test from
the GRUB> prompt, worked fine.

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Did you try installing the LTS (Long Term Support) Ubuntu 10.04 release? This is generally a bit more stable than 10.10 and does not have any reduced functionality either. Do you get the same errors with 10.04?