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Loading Ubuntu 7.04 from CD

Asked by Phil Ferrar on 2007-10-13

I've just obtained a copy of Ubuntu 7.04 "Starter Kit" from Computer Active magazine. After the initial splash screen has been running for a few seconds the screen blanks out and a couple of lines starting "Busybox ..... " appear at the top of the screen quoiting version numbers etc.

This is followed by something like ...

/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control t????d.fs [sorry about the ???? - can't read the note I scribbled down !]
(initramfs)

At this point it just sits and does nothing.

My laptop is a Samsung V20 with 512Meg of memory - any idea why it's failing to load properly?

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Luke Faraone
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2007-10-14
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Best Luke Faraone (lfaraone) said : #1

Try downloading and burning your own copy of ubuntu 7.04 from the download page or request some CDs via ShipIt (may take 4+ weeks to arrive).
Also, the new version of ubuntu, Gutsy Gibbon, is coming out on October 18, so you can try again when it comes out.

Wrwrwr (wrwrwr) said : #2

This usually means some hard drives problems, try pressing f6 on the first spash, and add "all_generic_ide" to the kernel options.

Phil Ferrar (phil-ferrar) said : #3

Tried F6 - which caused an input line to appear at bottom of screen - I then keyed " all_generic_ide" [with and without leading space, but without quotes] but no difference.

Also tried F6 as above followed by " noapic nolapic" [without quotes] as suggested at another site - again no difference.

Phil Ferrar (phil-ferrar) said : #4

Thanks ffm, that solved my question.