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MetalAZ
November 8th, 2009, 06:03 AM
I have an old celeron laptop with 768MB of RAM and the internal hard drive died on me yesterday. So, I removed it (it was causing the whole system to freeze with live CDs) and hooked up a 500GB USB external hard drive. I installed Ubuntu 9.10 onto it, which seemed to go fine and then followed the directions (I copied and pasted to prevent error) at http://www.pendrivelinux.com/make-a-usb-boot-cd-for-ubuntu-9-10/ to make a boot cd since my BIOS doesn't support booting off USB.

When I boot off the created boot cd I just get a grub prompt instead of a menu. So, I tried typing the following at the prompts:



first:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true persistent

then:
initrd /boot/initrd.lz

finally:
boot


It looked like it started to work since I started seeing text scroll down the screen, but then I started seeing stdin:0 over and over and over again. It just keeps repeating.

Anyone know what the problem might be?