weedwacker
May 4th, 2010, 01:57 PM
Hi, All:
My computer: AMD 64 cpu, 2 sata hard drives, asus mb
Win XP pro 64-bit on 1st hard drive, have always run Ubuntu on 2nd hard drive. Have run dual boot successfully before with other versions of Ubuntu.
I chose ext4 as my file system with Karmic Koala and used Grub2 with that Ubuntu dual booting with Windows. Everything was great!
Along comes Lucid and I set it up as above and it is totally a mess. I can get into Windows from the Grub boot window, but when I choose Ubuntu I get the following:
-a blinking cursor for about 20 seconds
-then a message: gave up waiting for root device
- then it lists common problems (sort of greek to me) followed by: BusyBox v1.13.3 -some help commands and then:
- (initramfs) with a blinking cursor
I've tried rebooting and letting the timer run down and I've tried booting with Ubuntu as my choice immediately. All nada.
Anyone have suggestions?
My computer: AMD 64 cpu, 2 sata hard drives, asus mb
Win XP pro 64-bit on 1st hard drive, have always run Ubuntu on 2nd hard drive. Have run dual boot successfully before with other versions of Ubuntu.
I chose ext4 as my file system with Karmic Koala and used Grub2 with that Ubuntu dual booting with Windows. Everything was great!
Along comes Lucid and I set it up as above and it is totally a mess. I can get into Windows from the Grub boot window, but when I choose Ubuntu I get the following:
-a blinking cursor for about 20 seconds
-then a message: gave up waiting for root device
- then it lists common problems (sort of greek to me) followed by: BusyBox v1.13.3 -some help commands and then:
- (initramfs) with a blinking cursor
I've tried rebooting and letting the timer run down and I've tried booting with Ubuntu as my choice immediately. All nada.
Anyone have suggestions?