Please Help, problems installing Ubuntu 6.06

[Rick Ziegler]

Thanks everyone for the replies.  I downloaded the latest 6.10 beta, and get a little further.  It starts the screen with the yellow background and Ubuntu logo with the progress bar, but now I see the message:

    BusyBox v1.1.3 (Debian 1:1.1.3-2ubuntu3) Built-in shell (ash)
    Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
    
    /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
    (initramfs)

If I try 'help' to get a list of commands, none of them really seem to get me anywhere.

Any idea what this means?

~Rick


cl at isbd.net wrote: On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 12:16:25PM +0100, Steve Flynn wrote:
>    On 06/10/06, [1]cl at isbd.net <[2]cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> 
>      It's a problem specifically to do with the Jmicron SATA/PATA interface
>      which is used on many motherboards which have the Intel 965 chipset.
>      The Intel chipset doesn't have a PATA (i.e. old fashioned IDE)
>      interface at all so the JMicron chipset is added to provide a PATA
>      interface.  The JMicron PATA interface doesn't have drivers in the
>      kernel except in the very latest (2.6.18) kernel.  Ubuntu have patched
>      the drivers into the 2.6.17 kernel in Ubuntu 6.10 beta.
> 
>    Ahhhhhh - it becomes clear now. Also, I'd not realised that the
>    motherboard didn't have a "real" IDE interface... I'll reconsider my
>    purchase. Thank you! :)
> 
Ubuntu 6.10 which arrives on 20th October should work OK "out of the
box" with motherboards that use the JMicron PATA interface for IDE
drives.  Certainly the 6.10 beta seems to work OK.

The Abit AB9 Pro will still have an issue with its Realtek 8138
network interfaces though, these will need a kernel module to be
compiled to get them to work with Linux.  I've overcome this for the
moment on my system by putting an old[ish] NIC into one of the PCI
slots.

>      I've ordered a SATA DVD/CD drive to overcome the problem.  The Intel
>      SATA interface works well with most reasonably new Linux kernels if
>      you turn AHCI on in the BIOS.
> 
>    Bugger me - didn't know you could get them! Either way, I don't want to
>    get rid of my nice Plextor burner just because it's on an IDE interface so
>    I'll be looking for an alternative
> 
There's a small premium for SATA CD/DVD drives but it's not much.  You
can get Plextor SATA drives now.

-- 
Chris Green (chris at halon.org.uk)

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