Problems with a live CD

Fredre Hattingh hattingh.fredre at gmail.com
Tue Sep 18 07:11:39 UTC 2007


Hi,

I never experienced that error my self but this thread in the forums
looks to be a close match...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=469158

Maybe that can help out?

ps. What hardware are you using ?


Fredre



On 9/18/07, Andrew Burgess <ap_burgess at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> I don't want to be pushy, but can anyone help me with this (problem below)?
> I'd really like to give Kubuntu a try!
>
> Thanks!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Burgess" <ap_burgess at yahoo.ca>
> To: "Kubuntu Help and User Discussions" <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 10:14 AM
> Subject: Re: Problems with a live CD
>
>
> 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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