Ubuntu

Floppy Detection (?) problem durin boot

Asked by Thomas Fehige on 2007-09-27

Hi,

I'm trying to get ubuntu (feisty) running on my ancient Toshiba 320cdt Laptop with 96MB RAM and a 233 MHz Pentium cpu.

When booting from Live-CD or from HD (installed with the alternate CD) I get these lines:
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Floppy drive(s): fd(0) is 1.44M
FDC 0 is an 8272A
Done.
Check root = bootarg cat /proc/cmdline
or missing modules, devices: cat /proc/modules ls /dev
ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/9351fac8-e211-459e-b1c98050d285 does not exist. Dropping to a schell!

BusyBox v1.1.3 (Debian 1:1.1.3-3ubuntu3) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' ...

/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
(initramfs)
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And here the boot process stops.
I'm not sure if the two indented lines (Check ...) are suggestions what to do in order to solve this, if so, I don't understand them at all.

What should I do? I'd appreciate your suggestions!

Thanks + Greetings
Thomas

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Language:: English Edit question

Status:: Solved

For:: Ubuntu Edit question

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Solved by:: Thomas Fehige

Solved:: 2007-09-30

Last query:: 2007-09-30

Last reply:: 2007-09-27

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Rafael Sachetto (rsachetto) said on 2007-09-27:

I think your laptop is to old to install feisty.
Why don't you try older versions of Ubuntu?

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Thomas Fehige (thomas-fehige) said on 2007-09-27:

Thanks Rafael,
that's exactly what I'm doing right now, and it seems ver. 6.06 is booting right now. It may still be too big for the old machine; has taken quite some time already.

Which version would you recommend?

Thank you + greetings
Thomas