cant install ubuntu 9.04

[Alexandra Zaharia]

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 2:12 PM, subin sam<subin.sam at gmail.com> wrote:
> hello Friends mine is A HP DX2255 RX331PT Buisness PC. My Problem is I
> cannot install Ubuntu. I tried the 9.04 too. But the same old problem. i
> cant even run  the live cd.
> when i insert the cd and when i boot the cd the following things happens on
> my pc
>
> [1.594944] sata_via 0000:00:08.1 : invalid PCI BAR 5(sz0x01 val 0x0)
> [6.768136] ata1.00: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4)
> [26.804012] ata1: SRST failed (err no = -16)
> [36.816011] ata1: SRST failed (err no = -16)
> [71.860011] ata1: SRST failed (err no = -16)
> [76.888011] ata1: SRST failed (err no = -16)
> [76.888061] ata1: reset failed giving up
> [96.924011] ata1: SRST failed (err no = -16)
> [106.936011] ata1: SRST failed (err no = -16)
> [141.980011] ata1: SRST failed (err no = -16)
> [147.008011] ata1: SRST failed (err no = -16)
> [147.008061] ata1: SRST failed (err no = -16)
>
> Loading, please wait...
>
> Busy Box v1.10.2 (ubuntu 1:1.10.2 - 2ubuntu7) built - in shell (ash)
>
> Enter 'help' for a list of built in commands
>
> (nitramfs)
>
>
>
> then nothing happens.
>
> what to do now? please reply me if you can help me

It might be something related to the hard drive(s). I'm not really
sure this will fix the problem, but you can try, when you get that
colorful menu asking you whether you want to "Try Ubuntu...", "Install
Ubuntu" etc., to do the following:

Press F6 (for "other options"); you will get a line reading something like:

file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.gz
quiet splash --

Now, go to the end of the line and add "all_generic_ide" at the end,
right after the two dashes, with no spaces. It should look similar to
this:

file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.gz
quiet splash --all_generic_ide

And now press enter to boot with this option. Hopefully it will work.