<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"> Good is the enemy of Excellent. Talent is not necessary for Excellence. Persistence is necessary for Excellence, and Persistence is a Decision. --- On Mon, 12/15/08, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1@gmail.com> wrote: <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Install problems with Partition Window To: lpaz1@yahoo.com, "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com> Date: Monday, December 15, 2008, 7:56 PM <pre>L Paz wrote: > A couple of day's ago, I tried updating my system from ubuntu 7.10 to ubuntu 8.04. Now when I boot I get a shell prompt that syas this: > > Starting Up.... > Loading, please wait... > check root=bootarg cat /proc/cmdline > or missing modules, devices! cat /proc/modules ls /dev > > ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/586255b2-73b6-4830-89aa-630e0727fe07 does not exist, Dropping to a Shell! > > BusyBox v 1.1.3 (Debian 1:1.1.3-5ubuntu12) Built-in Shell (ash) > > Enter 'help' for a list of built in commands. > > (initramfs)_ > > If I go into GRUB and pick the second choice, the system boots up ok and I can log in. > the first choice is this: > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-22-generic root=UUID=586255b2-73b6-483c-89aa-630e0727fe07 ro quiet splash > > the second choice is this: > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-16-generic root=UUID=586255b2-73b6-483c-89aa-630e0727fe07 ro quiet splash > > So I thought I would try to reinstall Ubuntu 8.04 , so I downloaded the ubuntu 8.04 distro from www.ubuntu.com, and I pick the second line that says Install Ubuntu., but when I get to step 4 out of 7, the partition window is blank----I can't choose my hard drive or create any partition's as the window does not have any entry's in it---it's just blank. It acts as though my hard drive is not there, or for soem reason it does recognize it. > > So, how do I either fix the boot error from the BusyBox initramfs prompt , or how can I format or partition my disk so thati I can install ubuntu? > > Sorry for the length of this, but I wasn't sure what information might be pertinent or not. > > > > > > > You never asked a question. You gave us a pile of disconnected words and asked if it is pertinent. It is not! I think you tried to upgrade a Ubuntu 7.10 to a 8.04 and are having trouble. This has been the norm when upgrading that many versions. Now tell us what happened AFTER you got 8.04 all installed. Karl -- Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI Linux User #450462 http://counter.li.org. PGP 4208 4D6E 595F 22B9 FF1C ECB6 4A3C 2C54 FE23 53A7 Ok, I am having two separate problems. The first problem is that my system will not boot properly after I tried the upgrade from 7.10 to 8.04. When it boots, it gets the message at the top of my post about the BusyBox shell, and I get an initramfs prompt. So, to try to fix this, I thought I would install 8.04 from the CD, as the upgrade obviously did not work for me. Now this is when I ahve the 2nd problem. When I attempt to install from the CD, I get to step 4 out of 7---the Partition Window, but it is blank. So, I need to either fix problem #1, that happened after the upgrade, wherein I get the BusyBox shell prompt, or I need to fix problem # 2, which would be the hard drive or no partitions showing up in the partition Manager Window on Step 4 of 7 when I try to do the Install from the CD. so to answer your question, as near as I can tell, I don't have 8.04 installed or running successfully </pre></blockquote></td></tr></table>