Need to install Ubuntu via USB
Scott
slewin at bmts.com
Fri Nov 14 15:35:37 UTC 2008
Loïc Grenié wrote:
> 2008/11/14 Scott <slewin at bmts.com>:
>> The CD drive in my wife's laptop is broken, so I only have the option to
>> install through USB and I have had nothing but severe problems. I tried
>> with both a 8.04.1 disk and a iso with "create a usb startup disk" and
>> got the same outcome, a busybox shell prompt when trying to boot on the
>> USB drive.
>
> There may be an error hidden by the initramfs. Try to type
>
> cat /casper.log
>
> at the busybox prompt, the last line(s) should contain the error
> (if there is one).
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Loïc Grenié
>
I did it and there was errors.
there are 11 lines of this
/init: /init: 1: cannot open /dev/hda: No medium found
And there is a few lines of
stdin: error 0
and a few lines of the same cannot open but refering to /dev/sdb and
/dev/sdb1 instead
I am not totally sure what this means, but I think it may have trouble
finding the hard drive. How would that cause a problem with a live disk?
the last two lines, which may be the most important, says:
mount: Mounting /dev/loop1 on /cow failed: Invalid argument
Can not mount /dev/loop1 on /cow
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Your friend,
Scott
http://sgaming.org
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