Cannot install 9.04 on laptop

[Pioden]

Hi folks,

First post here so please be gentle :) I'm trying to install 9.04 on my Samsung R60e but never get very far! I'm installing from a USB drive onto a disk which already has XP and Fedora10 installed. My intention in to wipe the disk and just have Ubuntu.

When I try to install Ubuntu installation fails BEFORE I get to ANY option screens and drops to a 'Busybox' prompt. The error message before Busybox is along the lines of 'Waiting for root, time out, /dev failed'. However it's not consistent. Sometimes I get the animated Ubuntu loading screen sometimes not. The error message also seems to be inconsistent - it varies!

I've checked checksums etc. and everything seems to be OK with the .iso. Any ideas what's wrong? Fedora is working great so hardware incompatibility is unlikely.

TIA

Huw

[Pioden]

Shameless bump in the hope that somebody can help!

[daisy87]

hi,
i gt the same prob
my pc crash then I reinstall XP on partition C and create a partition D.
then I insert the ubuntu cd 2 install it -follow the steps and then ull be ask "use the entire disk space" , "bigger continuous free space", "manually" -select entire disk space. since u already hve the partition then it ll delete the other OS frm HDD.

the prob swap i gt it coz I ddnt hd a partition since the OS crash. (that y i shud reinstall XP to then delete it)

Im not an expert but tryin 2 help -if others can help...
If u r not understdin email here):P
hpe ull be okie