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

[WSmart]

@Justic   Thanks for the post.

I had this issue trying to boot a Kubuntu 11.10 LiveCD on an old FlexATX
computer which only has one IDE interface.   Changing the jumpers on the
CD to master and the hard drive to slave did resolve the issue.   Oh
look, there's Kubuntu now!

I also tried a bunch of other permutations of jumpers and cables, trying
to keep the hard drive as master.   Somewhere I read that you don't want
a hard drive running with an optical on an IDE.  But I know I've done it
before without apparent issue.  Maybe that was with the 40 pin cables.
I finally gave up on that though.  I guess I have to get a USB optical
drive if I want my hard drive as master.

Thanks all.

Be real, be sober.

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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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