Re: Ubuntu 8.10 problems

Well, the problem isn't solved. I tried a number of restarts yesterday and Ubuntu came up fine. This morning I did a cold boot and again I was dropped down to initramfs.

From reading various forums this seems to be a bug when you have machines with both ide and sata drives. Apparently the bug has been reported. My box is sata-able, though I do not have any sata drives installed.

What I had difficulty saying yesterday, is that I was able to test Ubuntu 8.10 with a live CD when I first inserted it. Everything was fine. I then installed from the Live CD and the installation went well.

The next day, I could not boot from the hard drive or from the LiveCD. The same errors kept cropping up. The system could not find sda and sdb. (I am new to Ubuntu and all Debian flavours. Under Mandriva my drives were call hda and hdb.)

I can increase the rootdelay from 90 to 140, but I'm not sure this will solve the problem.

Eve

----- Original Message -----
From: Eve Kotyk <e.kotyk@shaw.ca>
Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2008 9:57 pm
Subject: Re: Ubuntu 8.10 problems
To: linux@slg.org

> That is a very bad sentence. What I meant to say was that even
> using the option to try Ubuntu without modifying the harddisk,
> ie booting from the cdrom. I'm not sure that is any clearer.
>
> I have come closer to solving my problem. After waiting for some
> minutes I typed "exit" at initramfs. The system then booted
> normally. I then added rootdelay=90 to the correct kernel line
> in grub. When I rebooted the boot was normal. I still don't know
> why this was necessary. I noticed from a google search that some
> people are having this problem with sata arrays. Although my
> system is sata capable I have two regular ide hard drives in it.
> I should have mentioned that this is a dual boot 32bit system.
>
> I too was afraid that it might be a hard drive problem. Now, I'm
> not sure. I will do a number of restarts to see if the problem
> comes up again.
>
> Eve
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Steven Kurylo <sk@infinitepigeons.org>
> Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2008 9:30 pm
> Subject: Re: Ubuntu 8.10 problems
> To: linux@slg.org
>
> > On 11/5/08, Eve Kotyk <e.kotyk@shaw.ca> wrote:
> > >
> > > Even using the use without modifying hardisk property of the
> > cdrom gives me"
> > >
> > > This continues with different address. The system never boots.
> > >
> >
> > I can't parse that sentence, but its not looking good for your
> > hardware.
> > You have a hard drive and cdrom, any other drives in there?
> >
> > So you put in the ubuntu CD, which will boot to its live desktop.
> > Does that work for you, or you get all those ata errors? 
> > Do you have
> > knoppix or older ubuntu cd to try?
> >
> > Try pulling the power cable on the hard drive (while the
> machine is
> > off).  Does the ubuntu CD then load to the live desktop?
> >
> > --
> > Steven Kurylo
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Received on Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:13:19 -0600