Ubuntu Installation.

[Alfred]

Hi:

I had this problem too , that Busy box came up the first time I tried to
install Ubuntu 8.10. I took a look at the Hard Drive and noticed that
the Selection Jumper was set to Master, but for more than one device,
eg, slave was supposed to be there too, but was not. I fixed this
setting it to Master - only drive. Then on the second attempted install,
everything went fine!

Alfred!
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Mathenge <mathenge at gmail.com>
Reply-To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
<ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: Ubuntu Installation.
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 23:51:06 -0500

Hi Alex,

Perhaps the CD device driver isn't being loaded at boot time. The PC
will boot from the CD but it will drop you to a busybox command prompt
if the CD device drivers aren't loaded.

At the command prompt, try the following. Type:

modprobe ide_generic
modprobe ide_disk
modprobe ide_cd
exit

Once you type exit, the system will attempt to continue booting from the CD.

Andrew.

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 9:48 PM, alex allison <alli562 at telus.net> wrote:
>  From alex allison.
> Date November 30 at 18.23hrs.
> e-mail alli563 at telus.net
>
> Hello.
> I would appreciate some help with my cd installation.
> I am trying to install Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS.I have a computer which I built
> myself.Asus board,A8N5X,Bios -Phoenix,Processor-AMD Athlon
> 64,Memory-1.5gigabytes,and a 160gigabyt HD.
> I received the CD through the post.I have made numerous attempts to
> install.No luck.When I play the CD,I get a three choices.I picked the
> first choice-Install.I then get a progress window.The orange indicator
> goes from left to right and back again,followed by a graphic window
> showing a choice of languages,Highlight English and press enter.I have
> tried letting the timer run out.Both times I get a window showing,Busy
> Box v1.1.3.Typing in "Help",I get a whole lot of commands.They are
> meaningless to me,and I cannot progress from here. I have to physically
> shutdown the computer.The install instruction show a lot of graphics
> which are not showing up in mine.
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thank you,
> Alex.
>
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