Install 8.10 on new machine stops with command line.

[tburge]

I am assembling a new desktop and installing 8.10. I have purchased a DVD from Amazon, so I assume that the install DVD is valid. The bios is set to boot from the DVD drive and will pause for the Ubuntu menu. When I select Install ... it quickly displays the command line (initramfs) and does not seem to continue.

I purchased a 1T HDD to use on this machine. Is the install progressing and formatting the hdd? 1T would take some serious time? The bios recognizes the hdd, therefore I think that it is installed correctly.

Am I missing something or is something broke?

Thanks,

[sir_nasty]

can you boot off the cd just fine? if so i'd try booting into the live cd then click the install icon and see if it acts any different....


also a quick search yielded this

http://www200.pair.com/mecham/spam/waiting_for_root_file_system.html

[tburge]

I tried booting to run from the CD. I still ended up with a BusyBox command line (thanks to the article that reminded me of busybox).

Note, this hdd has never been formatted. It's Brand New, out of the box.

[sir_nasty]

I'm guessing you bought the cd to avoid this but.... I've recently been playing with a few usb drives and installing from them... if that's an option I'd suggest downloading 9.04 and write it to a usb drive then install....

[ozonehole]

I think the answer to your problem is here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/222176

best regards,
Oz

[tburge]

Thanks Oz, that let me install. Now it is reluctant to boot from hdd, so I need to re-read that thread some more.

Terry