Jesdisciple
July 12th, 2011, 02:37 PM
I've managed to get an uncorrupted ISO over to my Ubuntu 9.10 (this computer) via a flash drive. I installed it to the hard disk with Unetbootin (frugal install) and tried to boot to it. A message flashes on the screen that something is deprecated, too quickly to read, and then I'm presented with an ash shell (I think it was called "(initrmfs)").
My laptop's inbuilt keyboard is broken, so Enter and some other keys don't work; meanwhile, my external keyboard isn't detected at that stage of boot. So all I can do is hard-reset the computer. But before, I had suspected the ISO was corrupted because copies I downloaded later were so, but I couldn't verify that because Unetbootin had deleted the ISO. At that time I was able to type, and entering "exit" caused a kernel panic.
Maybe this should be in hardware since the keyboard is involved, but I have a feeling that ash shell shouldn't come up in the first place. So, advice please?
My laptop's inbuilt keyboard is broken, so Enter and some other keys don't work; meanwhile, my external keyboard isn't detected at that stage of boot. So all I can do is hard-reset the computer. But before, I had suspected the ISO was corrupted because copies I downloaded later were so, but I couldn't verify that because Unetbootin had deleted the ISO. At that time I was able to type, and entering "exit" caused a kernel panic.
Maybe this should be in hardware since the keyboard is involved, but I have a feeling that ash shell shouldn't come up in the first place. So, advice please?