Hi, I'm a new Ubuntu user...well fairly new, I tried it out about a year ago.

I decided to revisit it, I partitioned both of my drives (I have two), one for Windows later and one for Linux.

I have the swap/page spaces on opposite drives, as a friend told me to do.

I partitioned my second drive (the slave drive) for Linux with three seperate partitions, and mounted them as this in install:

/, /usr/local/, /home/,

Everything seemed to go fine and it installed. These are new partitions, so there is no previous Linux installation on them. So, I restarted the computer, removed CD.

It loads through GRUB and everything and the Ubuntu splash screen comes up, but it doesn't appear to be loading, the bar goes back and forth. My second hard drive seems to do something for a few seconds with the light flashing a little, and then stops. After a few minutes, I get a DOS-like prompt called BusyBox.

Attempts to format and reinstall have led to the same error. I have no other operating systems installed, I formatted my drives completely clean with new partitions. The only thing I can use is LiveCD.

What's more, is my partitions for some reason are listed as /dev/sda# and /dev/sdb#...and LiveCD is reading them as REMOVABLE devices.

I don't claim to be an expert but it seems like for some reason, the bootloader isn't finding Linux? Because my friend told me to check the error logs and not a damn thing is written in them.

Can anyone help me out?