Glitch in installing 9.04 as a Clean Install.

[Eric]

Had the same issue when I installed
Seems to be related to either SATA/RAID adapters
For starters, try checking that your bios doesnt have your sata controler
set to "sata+raid" or some such
Play around with bios option, or search the forums...theres about a million
different solution there though.

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Alfred <alfred.s at nexicom.net> wrote:

> Hi - All:
>
> I had Ubuntu 9.04 32 Bit Downloaded for me on a CD to try in Live Mode,
> and it worked fine. We have very slow dial-up here. So I ordered from
> England at thelinuxstore.org the 8 DVD set of Ubuntu 9.04 32bit with all
> the repositories on DVD. So perhaps not much Downloading needed.
>
> Now unlike the install manuals online, it goes through some steps of the
> install and then stops at Busy Box V 1.10.2 Built in Shell ash
> (initramfs)_  saying type "help" for a list of Commands. Strange thing -
> The CD that I had Downloaded does this too, now. Where before it loaded
> to the Live desktop, with the install Icon on the screen.
>
> I formatted the hard drive to EXT3. Have no Idea at all what to do next.
>
> It detected my Card reader, because the lights came on, but that is all
> I can see. Then it goes to Busy Box (initramfs)_ I'm not real good at
> Text mode installs, I did not select text mode, I selected The first
> option do nothing to the OS, then tried the second menu item Install
> option, both end in Busy Box, (initramfs)_ then tried hitting F4 and
> going through the list of Options, F2, F3, .... etc. Still it ends in
> Busy box (initramfs)_
>
> My Confuser is a Home made AMD Athalon XP, with 2 Gigs of DDR Ram,
> Nvidia 5500 with 256 Megs of Video Ram. 320 Gigs Hard drive Formatted to
> EXT3. With an LG DVD Cutter/CD cutter. Worked OK with 6.04, 7.10, 8.10.
>
> Anyone got any ideas about how to get around this.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Alfred!
>
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