[Bug 1241589] Re: ubuntu 13.10 unable to boot on live usb (busy box - initramfs)

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I've been able to narrow down my issue to a single hard drive (ATA ST1000DM003-1CH1 (/dev/sdc)). With this hard drive disconnected from the computer, the liveUSB is bootable into the live ubuntu 13.10 64bit OS. An fdisk list states that Disk /dev/sdc doesn't contain a valid partition table. I can recall that this drive was formated through the Disks application, using Partitioning (GPT) under Ubuntu 12.10 32bit. This drive (Seagate) was also a new drive at the time. The hard drive is mountable under a  Ubuntu 12.10 32bit install and has shown no issue in reading from and writing to the drive.


Doing (sudo fdisk -l) has shown:

Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/sdc doesn't contain a valid partition table


Disks application info for /dev/sdc:

SMART assessment- Disk is OK (31° C / 88° F)
Volumes - Drive label / 1.0 TB Ext4
Size - 1.0 TB (1,000,204,886,016 bytes)
Device - /dev/sdc
Contents - Ext4 (version 1.0)
Drive is mounted


(Note that the Device doesn't show as /dev/sdc1.)

In addition, this recent test was done using a USB flash drive loaded
through unetbootin to live boot Ubuntu 13.10 64bit. This boot issue is
also seen in the current daily builds of Trusty 32bit & 64bit. Assuming
that a drive does not contain a valid partition table as seen by fdisk
-l, then the live OS boot attempt will fail. LiveUSB testing of Ubuntu
13.04 32bit has shown no such boot issues with this hard drive connected
to the computer.

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Title:
  ubuntu 13.10 unable to boot on live usb (busy box - initramfs)

Status in “casper” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  First, excuse me for my English I'm French.

  I download ubuntu 13.10 64 bits iso. I check the MD5 sum and all is OK.
  I create the live usb with usb-creator-gtk from my ubuntu 13.04.

  I reboot my computer, it starts on the usb stick with the first ubuntu
  screen and stop on a black screen with busybox and initramfs.

  I have try the same usb key on another computer and its works.

  I have try to make a live usb of ubuntu 13.04 and it works correctly.

  Some informations about my hardware configuration :
      - motherboard : z77X-D3H
      - RAM  8Go
     - CPU : Intel Core i7-3770K
     - graphic card : from the CPU

  Edit:
  For information same problem with kubuntu 13.10 and xubuntu 13.10

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