upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

[Martin Owens]

That seems like a nasty error, ATA would be somethign wrong with the
hard drive so my guess is that it doesn't get past the kernel boot.

2008/4/27 Brian DeLacey <bdelacey at gmail.com>:
> I attempted to upgrade a Dell Inspiron 530N - originally purchased with an
> earlier version of Ubuntu - to 8.04 LTS. It was running Ubuntu 7.10
> previously without any problem.
>
> I clicked on the UI element that indicated a new upgrade was available. The
> upgrade process proceeded easily enough, downloading files etc., but now the
> system does not reboot into the GUI.
>
> Instead, I just receive an unending list of error messages in a full
> terminal screen (preceeded by a note about BusyBox) like this:
>
> ata2.00: status: { DRDY. }
> ata2.0 exception Emask 0x0 ASct ....
> ata2.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:24:00 ....
>
> Has anyone else seen this? Any ideas? Have other people done the full
> upgrade cleanly? Do I need to do a clean reinstall from a fresh CD?
>
> Thanks for any ideas,
> Brian
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