dust in the light
May 26th, 2009, 03:17 AM
Hi all,
I'm having some issues installing 8.04 LTS on a brand new dell 530S running vista home basic.
Specs are: Pentium Dual Core, 2.50GHz, 3GB RAM, 320 gig HDD.
I installed using the Live CD, created a 200 gig partition for Ubuntu, and had no real problems. After rebooting though, I can't get into Ubuntu!
I get the GRUB boot menu, then the Ubuntu loading bar (which lingers for a long time)
Then this:
BusyBox 1.1.3
(initramf) [200.805235] ata2.00 exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
[200...] ata2.00 exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0
[200...] cmd a0/00:00:00:00:24:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 pio 36 in
[200...] status: {DRDY}
Some notes about the above error message. I didn't know if there's a way to copy/paste these errors, so all of that was hand copied...
At the beginning of each line in [] braces was what I'm guessing is a time tag, and i didn't bother to copy all of that down.
The error message basically loops the above lines endlessly.
I can't boot into either Ubuntu or the safe mode option in the Grub menu, but I can get back into vista (lucky me...jk). I searched these forums and tried adding noapic acpi=off to the kernel line in GRUB, but no luck. I finally ended up reinstalling the windows MBR and deleting my Ubuntu partitions and reinstalling from the live disc, again with no luck.
Could any one offer any advice?
Thanks!
I'm having some issues installing 8.04 LTS on a brand new dell 530S running vista home basic.
Specs are: Pentium Dual Core, 2.50GHz, 3GB RAM, 320 gig HDD.
I installed using the Live CD, created a 200 gig partition for Ubuntu, and had no real problems. After rebooting though, I can't get into Ubuntu!
I get the GRUB boot menu, then the Ubuntu loading bar (which lingers for a long time)
Then this:
BusyBox 1.1.3
(initramf) [200.805235] ata2.00 exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
[200...] ata2.00 exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0
[200...] cmd a0/00:00:00:00:24:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 pio 36 in
[200...] status: {DRDY}
Some notes about the above error message. I didn't know if there's a way to copy/paste these errors, so all of that was hand copied...
At the beginning of each line in [] braces was what I'm guessing is a time tag, and i didn't bother to copy all of that down.
The error message basically loops the above lines endlessly.
I can't boot into either Ubuntu or the safe mode option in the Grub menu, but I can get back into vista (lucky me...jk). I searched these forums and tried adding noapic acpi=off to the kernel line in GRUB, but no luck. I finally ended up reinstalling the windows MBR and deleting my Ubuntu partitions and reinstalling from the live disc, again with no luck.
Could any one offer any advice?
Thanks!