Problems with a live CD

[James Saveker]

Fredre Hattingh wrote:
> Hi
>
> I had the same problem with my Dell TravelMate 5320.
>
> You can try typing when in the shell that you get:
>
> modprobe piix
> exit
>
>
> It worked for me
>
> Good Luck,
> Fredre
>
> On 9/17/07, Andrew Burgess <ap_burgess at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>   
>> I'm really new to Kubuntu, and actually Linux; I've never used it before.
>> Recently I've wanted to give it a try and heard that Kubuntu was a good
>> flavour (is that what you call it?) to start with. I burnt myself a live CD
>> and tried to boot from it, but I got the following error message:
>>
>>
>> BusyBox v1.1.3 (Debian 1:1.1.3-3ubuntu3) Built-in shell (ash)
>> Enter 'help' for a list of built in commands
>> /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
>> (initramfs)
>>
>> Can anyone tell me what this means and what to do to fix it? It was
>> suggested to me that it might be a hardware compatibility issue; if you need
>> any of that kind of info, just let me know.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Andrew
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>
>   
I had the same problem on my Dell Dimension.  I resolved it by going in 
to the BIOS and changing the RAID config around.. for the life of me I 
can't remember what I changed though.

Jimbo.