[Bug 543875] Re: unable to find a medium containing a live file system

[why2jjj]

I ran into a similar issue that Chip Piller, comment #17 had.  I also
have a HP Elitebook 8540(w).  Booting Ubuntu 11.04 via USB on the right
side of the notebook gave me the exact same error; however, using the
left USB port on the 8540 allowed me to boot the system successfully
with a blank hard drive and then allowed me to install Ubuntu on that
blank hard driver.

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Title:
  unable to find a medium containing a live file system

Status in “casper” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  When trying to boot Ubuntu 10.04 beta1 64bit on the Primary Slave IDE CD-ROM drive it fails with the message:
  stdin: error 0 (repeated over 25 times)

  BusyBox v1.13.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.13.3-1ubuntu9) built-in shell (ash)
  Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands

  (initramfs) Unable to find a medium containing a live file system.

  If I switch my CD-ROM drive over to Primary Master IDE then it will
  boot no problem.

  I'm not using any of the other IDE ports, my HD is SATA.

  Problem still exists in Natty.

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