thiagoaraujos
November 10th, 2008, 02:07 PM
Can't boot into live Ubuntu 8.10
Hi folks,
I've got the following system configuration: MSI P6NGM-L motherboard, Core 2 Duo E7200, Seagate Barracuda SATA 500GB (on sata1) + WDC IDE 80GB (on ide1), LG H50N IDE CD-ROM (that should be enough for now). I'm running Arch Linux right now on my system, but would like to give a try on a desktop distro like Ubuntu.
The problem is, I can't boot the live CD (the same happens to Mandriva, very similarly). I booted in verbose mode, disabling "silent" and "splash" options, and I've got a lot of messages like that:
[98.435349] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
[.........] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
..................
and over and over (with different incremental numbers), till I get into a busybox console, without no explicit errors. I type "exit" in the console, and I get something like:
cp: cannot create '/root/var/log': no such file or directory
mount: mounting /root/dev/ on /dev/.static/dev failed: no such file or directory
mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: no such file or directory
mount: mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: no such file or directory
target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init
no init found: try passing init= bootarg
I've got an ext3 partition on SATA drive that runs Arch Linux. I think the overall problem's just strange, because live cd mode doesn't have to rely on a hard drive, or maybe it's just a hard drive or motherboard detection problem.
I read somewhere that disabling IDEs could have some effect... I unplugged my IDE and got the same problem. So what could I do? Since I got that motherboard I had trouble booting in any Linux live CD, but I don't know wether this time it's really a motherboard problem, or a hard disk problem.
Thanks for any help
Hi folks,
I've got the following system configuration: MSI P6NGM-L motherboard, Core 2 Duo E7200, Seagate Barracuda SATA 500GB (on sata1) + WDC IDE 80GB (on ide1), LG H50N IDE CD-ROM (that should be enough for now). I'm running Arch Linux right now on my system, but would like to give a try on a desktop distro like Ubuntu.
The problem is, I can't boot the live CD (the same happens to Mandriva, very similarly). I booted in verbose mode, disabling "silent" and "splash" options, and I've got a lot of messages like that:
[98.435349] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
[.........] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
..................
and over and over (with different incremental numbers), till I get into a busybox console, without no explicit errors. I type "exit" in the console, and I get something like:
cp: cannot create '/root/var/log': no such file or directory
mount: mounting /root/dev/ on /dev/.static/dev failed: no such file or directory
mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: no such file or directory
mount: mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: no such file or directory
target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init
no init found: try passing init= bootarg
I've got an ext3 partition on SATA drive that runs Arch Linux. I think the overall problem's just strange, because live cd mode doesn't have to rely on a hard drive, or maybe it's just a hard drive or motherboard detection problem.
I read somewhere that disabling IDEs could have some effect... I unplugged my IDE and got the same problem. So what could I do? Since I got that motherboard I had trouble booting in any Linux live CD, but I don't know wether this time it's really a motherboard problem, or a hard disk problem.
Thanks for any help