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Install of Ubuntu 64 on new computer -- Intel Core I3 on Asus P8H67-M motherboard fails and dumps in BusyBox with message (Initramfs) unable to find a medium using live file system

Asked by Peter Thompson

Does Ubuntu 10.10 support Intel Core I3 processor and support the Asus P8H67-M motherboard. If so, what is the trick to get it working? What parameters to I need to change and how do I change them? I have tried all 4 downloads of Ubuntu - 32 bit, and 64 bit in Desktop and Alternative with a variety of parameter changes that are recommended...they change nothing. The Desktop (32 and 64) versions get me to Busybox shell with (Initramfs) and 18 files plus some command capability. The Alternative version hangs with the messages: RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM image startgin at 0; No filesystem could mount root, tried ext3, ext2, ext4, fuseblk; Kernal panic - not syncing VHS; Unable to mount root fs on unkown block(1,0). I turn off the quiet and splash to try and see what is going on....but it is too complex and goes to fast for me to follow. thanks for any help on this....

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Federico Tello Gentile (federicotg) said : 		#1

If you are booting from a CD try booting from a USB stick created from the ISO image you downloaded and burned to CD. Scroll down here to step 2 and select how you want to create the USB stick and click "show me how"

http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download

Also make sure the media is correctly recorded in the CD, for example test it on another computer.

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Peter Thompson (wildroser) said : 		#2

I tried booting form a USB stick. It goes less far then the CDROM. It immediately comes back with the single line message:
Syslinux 4.03 ...... Peter Anvin et al
and then it hangs and does nothiing.

I know the Ubuntu CD I am booting from is ok because i can use it on my notebook to run Ubuntu 10.10 live
I know the new computer I built is ok becuase I can load it up with Windows

The problem is the Intel Core I3 + Asus P8H67 + Ubuntu 10.10 doesn't work - yet each works independently under Windows.
I tried loadinig Ubuntu on Asus P8H67 under Windows (instead of independently as before) but it comes back with the same (initramfs) message. I am really kind of at a loss.

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Federico Tello Gentile (federicotg) said : 		#3

Check this:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=111327

It might have to do with EFI. Disable it.

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Peter Thompson (wildroser) said : 		#4

I got it working - more by good luck than good thinking. I think the key to a workaround is described in Bug # 143958 where one has to figure out a way to mount the CD-ROM or get it recognized somehow. I could not use the "(initramfs) mount /dev/scd0 /cdrom" and then "exit" because although I had /cdrom I did not have /scd0 in /dev. I did have sg0, sda, and sda1-3 but did not try mounting them as I was unsure what they were.

It ended up I had an external cdrom which I hooked into the USB and everything loaded fine. Like I said - more by good luck than good thinking.... but I think an expert on the BusyBox code could have figured out how to get through it.