Problems with a live CD

[Andrew Burgess]

Thanks for those instructions; I think I'm one step further now, but I've 
run into another error message. After I followed the directions you (Fredre) 
gave, it went through the loading process until I got a screen with the 
following message:

[106.86000] bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available 
or load failed.

It repeated this line 9 times over about 5 minutes, with a difference 
xxx.xxxxxx combination in the brackets at the front. By the last one, it 
sounded like the CD had stopped spinning, so I pressed my power button to 
reboot. When I did that, it went back to the "Kubuntu" screen, popped the CD 
out, and shut down. What do I do now?

Thanks to all for their help!

PS - I've said CD, but it's actually a DVD; does it make a difference?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fredre Hattingh" <hattingh.fredre at gmail.com>
To: "Kubuntu Help and User Discussions" <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 9:38 AM
Subject: Re: Problems with a live CD


Hi,

Sorry for the wrong instructions earlier. The solution i found was located 
here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/99757

<quote>
jerrylamos wrote on 2007-06-13: (permalink)

There are a couple fixes which work for some people. See my post
"Workarounds" in "Installation & Upgrades" in ubuntuforums.org.

The first one to try is when you boot the CD Live disk and get boot
options, push F6
At the end of the line after quiet splash, add: break=top which should
look like:
.........quiet splash break=top

What is supposed to happen is that the boot will stop with a command
line before getting the "can't access tty". Then enter
modprobe piix
presuming that works, then enter
exit

I have no idea what this actually does, except some people report that it 
works.
</quote>

I forgot about the break=top part.

ps. Thats a acer Travelmate (long day)



On 9/17/07, Andrew Burgess <ap_burgess at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
>
> My SATA operation is set to AHCI and the only other option is ATA; to 
> switch
> to that, I need to turn off the Flash Cache Module. Should I change that? 
> Is
> that what you're talking about, or am I looking at the wrong thing?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: James Saveker
> To: Kubuntu Help and User Discussions
>
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 7:48 AM
> Subject: Re: Problems with a live CD
>
> 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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