cant install ubuntu 9.04

[NoOp]

On 06/14/2009 04:26 AM, Alexandra Zaharia wrote:
> 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.
> 

You might try 'quiet splash --irqpoll' see:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/172300