Hi Steve,
my failure on the Dell Vostro is with the ide drivers. Adding
all_generic_ide in grub allows the system to run. Of course, the
LiveCD won't boot.
Thanks.Peter
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RTL8102EL NIC chip cause Ubuntu 8.04 LiveCD boot up fail fail
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223656
You received this
Three or four times ! That's good. I think I might have had a successful
restore once. Certainly not more.
I tried it yesterday with the all_generic_ide fix to see if that helped.
Nah. Reloaded all the pages and then froze at Suspending console(s)
This is the Dell Vostro 200, by the way.
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The image from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/hardy/daily-live/current I
downloaded this morning does NOT solve the problem. I tried to boot as
LiveCD and it arrived at busybox. This is a Dell Vostro 200 (SATA disk,
SATA DVD, no floppy, Core 2 Duo)
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RTL8102EL NIC chip cause Ubuntu 8.04 LiveCD boot
I'm having the same problems with a Dell Vostro 200 (Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz).
LiveCD x86 drops to busybox
LiveCD 64 drops to busybox
Alternate CD x86 install fine, restart drops to busybox
The all_genericide option for grub make things work.
This system has SATA disk and SATA DVD - no PATA/IDE at
I'm also having problems on a Vostro 200. It worked OK for a while
(several weeks, occasional usage) but has now become unbootable.
During the attempt, it drops to BusyBox but still keeps trying,
producing lots of errors (but I'm not familiar with how to save them --
maybe a digital camera of the
I'm having the same issue with a Vostro 200. Weird thing is that it
worked fine for a while (couple of weeks, occasional use) but now is
completely hosed.
LiveCD won't boot (disk has fresh install of Vista - it's 160GB).
Alternate installer CD installs fine (to a different disk, complete
On another forum, I found detail on a workaround
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=536850 near the end.
In grub, replace quiet splash with all_generic_ide, and once the
system is up, do likewise in /boot/grub/menu.lst
See that post for details if this is unfamiliar.
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