[Tfug] busy box problem

[Robert Hunter]

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On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 12:08:37AM -0500, Matthew Patenaude wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> I am trying to help a friend check out Ubuntu on his Sony Vaio laptop. His
> cd drive is bad, and I tried to boot into the liveCD via an external DVD
> drive, and after choosing "Start or Install Ubuntu" I get put into BusyBox
> initramfs. cat casper.log gives "no medium found on dev/scd0"
> 
> Does that mean it is trying to run the live CD from the actual cdrom instead
> of where it booted from? If so, how would I go about bypassing that, if it
> is in fact possible?

It is possible that grub is reporting a different boot device than
what the kernel is seeing.  Is there any way of disabling, or removing
the internal CD-ROM drive?  Alternatively, you could edit the kernel
params at boot-time to coerce the correct device ID.

HTH,

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Rob
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