Problems with a live CD

[James Saveker]

Go into the BIOS and change the SATA operation from RAID only to
auto-detect. My problem, same as yours, went away instantly.

On 9/17/07, Andrew Burgess <ap_burgess at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Fredre: I tried typing that in, but it didn't seem to do anything. It just
> put the same message back out.
>
> Jimbo: I looked around in the BIOS a bit, but I didn't want to mess with
> anything I didn't know about.
>
> Thanks for your help. Any other ideas?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Saveker" <james at saveker.org>
> To: "Kubuntu Help and User Discussions" <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 6:18 AM
> Subject: Re: Problems with a live CD
>
>
> 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.
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