[Tfug] busy box problem

[Matthew Patenaude]

Thanks for all the help guys. He has a new system being built for him that
should have no problems, and he is making up his mind what OS he wants and
so he just wanted to see what it was like for a couple weeks. He will
probably go that direction. He is new to Linux, but has wanted to migrate
for sometime and hates Vista, so there you go.

He is running it now, and I think he likes it.

Thanks again.
Matthew Patenaude

On Jan 18, 2008 11:13 PM, Rich <r-lists at studiosprocket.com> wrote:

> This may be irrelevant, as it applied to an ancient VAIO with an
> external CD using some weird (proprietary?) connector. I also realise
> you've solved it for yourself; but for the sake of completeness: I
> successfully booted the live CD on a PCG-Z505LS/Model PCG-531A with:
>
> linux ide2=0x180,0x386
>
> R.
>
> On Jan 16, 2008, at 10:08 pm, 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?
> >
> > Any ideas would be appreciated.
> >
> > Matthew Patenaude
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