On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Dotan Cohen <<a href="mailto:dotancohen@gmail.com">dotancohen@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> What should one do when booting Ubuntu gets the Busybox CLI screen?</blockquote><div> Pray it is not the JMicron bug. Are you getting this message? = "failed to set xfermode" ? you probably would have mentioned it... but hey, worth a try... if so you could check out this page: <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.17/+bug/57502">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.17/+bug/57502</a> a rather infamous problem, that plagues me to this day... </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I just installed Hardy alpha6 on my Dell Inspiron E1505 / 6400 laptop (2 gHz Intel DuoCore2, 2 GB RAM, ATI X1400 graphics). I can get through the Hardy installation just fine, but upon first boot I get the boxybox cli. I tried adding the parameter "ircpoll" to the kernel line in grub, but this did not help. Dotan Cohen <a href="http://what-is-what.com" target="_blank">http://what-is-what.com</a> <a href="http://gibberish.co.il" target="_blank">http://gibberish.co.il</a> א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- Matthew Clarke