The issue persists on 14.04.03, tested with a few different HP
workstations with latest HP BIOS updates (1.36, 2012). From an SO post I
found: http://askubuntu.com/questions/664577/unable-to-boot-ubuntu-live-
usb-flash-drive-with-casper-rw-persistent-partition
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For me, blkid returns nothing. I have no way of finding out what my USB
stick is. I've tried appending live-media=/dev/sda1{sdb1|sdc1}
But really, I could keep trying different combinations of that all day
long. I'm attempting to install 14.04 onto a fresh hard drive. Do I have
any other options?
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Re #68, I had the same issue. My HDD and SSD are /dev/sda and /dev/sdb,
so the USB drive would show up as /dev/sdc. However, when I ran blkid
from the initramfs prompt, all I saw were sda* and sdb* partitions (and
I know those were my internal drives based on the partition schemes). I
was able to
I have verified that this issue with the Lenovo Twist was due to the
current BIOS 1.65. Lenovo staff confirmed this. Downgrade to 1.62
until 1.66 comes out.
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I've downloaded dccff28314d9ae4ed262cfc6f35e5153 md5 hashed
ubuntu-14.04-desktop-amd64.iso using pendrive linux tool I've made installation
USB.
When i choose install this error occurs. Any comments?
Using HP EliteBook 6930p as notebook.
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I tried the newest trusty... also same issue. Installing 13.10 or
Trusty worked fine for me until I replaced my normal HD for a SSD. I
currently have a 24GB Cache and a 450GB SSD. The cache is just
formatted with FAT32 to be used for my Linux Distro since I don't need
it for a cache anymore.
Hi all,
I downloaded the daily build ( trusty-desktop-i386.iso - 25-Mar-2014 )
and i think this problem persists. I had to add live-media ... to make
it work.
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sorry, i' say solved for me too
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Ye ! solved from me toot thanks to EKing
Adding live-media=/dev/xxx1 to the end of the line (but before the
final double hypen)
worked, that's it
hope *buntu developers fix that asap
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With the today daily buil of trusty-desktop-amd64.iso, the bug is also
fixed for me.
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Status: Confirmed = Fix Committed
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The casper package has updated to 1.339 in Trusty. Daily build trusty-
desktop-i386 as of 20-Mar-2014 07:50 corrects the busybox boot issue
that was seen on the computer with the attached hard drive which did not
contain a valid partition table. (The bug is fixed for me.)
Related bug that brought
The trusty-desktop-i386.iso build from 13-Mar-2014 07:48 is still
showing the busybox prompt. Workaround with live-media=/dev/xxx1
remains needed to continue with the boot. (The workaround is also
compatible for Mint.)
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I tested with the 14.04 Daily build. Does not fix bug. I still get
intramfs prompt when booting from DVD and USB stick.
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Also of note, I am able to boot both Debian stable and testing with no
problems in both DVD and USB installs without unplugging any drives.
This implies it is a specific issue to the Ubuntu kernel since it only
effects Ubuntu based distros. I can confirm Mint has the same issue.
I've had this
I am running a core I-7 processor and have one 3TB drive with BTRFS and
one 3TB drive with EXT4. Oddly unplugging my BTRFS drive and my DVD
drive is required to boot from USB. Obviously this is not a very useful
solution since it means I cannot use the live disk to install Ubuntu.
This seems like
Hello guys. I downloaded Daily Build (12-Mar-2014 07:50)
trusty-desktop-amd64.iso - http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/
Problem was solved for me. Try it.
Hurrah ))
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I just downloaded the current trusty image today too, but it did not
work when installing from DVD with two HDDs connected. Fortunatley I
found this thread so was at least able to install after disconnecting
one if them. I was going to lose my mine if I didnt find a solution :)
Also didnt work
Workaround with live-media parameter to capser works for me.
Thank you for this tip.
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Yes, as above I also used a workaround similar to the one above. I found it
here:
http://life.paperblog.com/howto-fix-linux-mint-ubuntu-install-from-usb-failure-drops-to-busybox-328258/
I added LIVEMEDIA=/dev/sdc1
I definitely started looking with the attitude that there was no way
that I was
Using the information as provided by #53 #54, I was able to boot into
the liveOS of Ubuntu 14.04 with the problem hard drive connected, and
that the hard drive is detected by the liveOS.
With a Unetbootin liveUSB of Ubuntu 14.04, I did the following:
(Finding the LiveUSB /dev/***1)
1) Allow
I finally figured out a workaround.
I was able to boot into a live session by passing the live-media=
parameter from the boot menu, specifying the device path of my USB
device.
(See http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man7/casper.7.html for a
description of the live-media parameter.)
I
Same problem as in the comment #51 here. :
:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 têtes, 63 secteurs/piste, 19457 cylindres, total 312581808 secteurs
Unités = secteurs de 1 * 512 = 512 octets
Taille de secteur (logique / physique) : 512 octets / 512 octets
taille
#31
I've been able to narrow down my issue to a single hard drive (ATA
ST1000DM003-1CH1 (/dev/sdc)). With this hard drive disconnected from the
computer, the liveUSB is bootable into the live ubuntu 13.10 64bit OS. An fdisk
list states that Disk /dev/sdc doesn't contain a valid partition table.
I had a similar problem with booting a live CD ubuntu gnome 13.10, just
could not boot it on a Packard Bell TE69KB, so I ended up, by disabling
the secure boot and UEFI in the BIOS plus fastboot in win8. I could then
boot the live DVD. At this point, I decided to keep this config and try
to
I used unetbootin and the tip in #44 worked for me. Thanks.
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Also here with my system.
Not being able to boot live (DVD and USB) Kubuntu 13.10.
The specs are Core 2 Duo, 4GB, 1TB+160GB+160GB+40GB.
I was thinking that it is may be due some sort of mapping to merge as
RAID the both disks with 160GB, some nvraidmapper drive, even though I
don't have any RAID
same here but with ubuntu 12.04.3 busy box - initramfs no medium live
system thing(forgot error mesagge) . how to fix this? i tried solution
above still not work.
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This has nothing to do with the manner in which the USB stick is created. Per
comment #33, the
problem can be triggered using the original Live CD ISO mounted as a virtual CD
to a VirtualBox
machine in which the only hard disk attached has an unexpected partition table,
such as a full volume
I am having this same problem and I installed this machine from ubuntu
over USB in the past, so i know its not because i changed anything.
*sigh*
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I was able to fix this for myself following instructions here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/USB%20Installation%20Media
UNetbootin (Windows or Linux)
UNetbootin automates this task by providing a GUI to create a bootable
Ubuntu Live USB drive from an ISO file, and can be run from both an
I didnt use unetbootin to generate my usbstick so I'm not sure
unetbootin is the problem. I managed to fix it by removing hard-drives
until I found the one that caused it to crash to busybox prompt and
deleting all the partitions and re doing it in gparted.
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I try fresh trusty iso (2014-01-11).
I still have the same problem.
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This bug affected me as well; it wasted about 5 hours...
Is it possible to work around this bug by blacklisting any modules? It is
appearing to me like the liveCD initramfs doesn't take the blacklists I
attempted.
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I can confirm that my installation (see comment #5) also contains HDD's without
partition table.
In fact, most of them (except the boot disk) are completely occupied as btrfs
volume, so no MBR or GPT is present at these disks.
My boot disk uses GPT and I boot using UEFI.
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Same for me.
No partition table in the second HDD (ext4).
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Could you try todays trusty (14.04) live image please?
I have had this issue for some time and images from 2014-01-09 have
booted fine with multiple hard disks in my boxen.
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One note. Most Gigabyte motherboards struggle booting off a USB created
with the USB creator app because it does not use FAT 16.
For gigabyte motherboards I use this method for non persistant live ISO
USB sticks.
Blank USB stick...
# Change X to device to be wiped.
sudo dd if=/dev/zero
Re #39
For writing ISO to disk the line should be.
# Change X to device to be written to.
Sorry, a typo in my own cheat sheet file. :-)
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I spent hours trying to boot from a 13.10 usb stick today and yesterday;
wondering if the USB stick had bad sectors, trying various BIOS settings
and also trying various different .iso to USB writing software like usb-
creator-gtk and unetbootin etc.
I'm very disappointed that Ubuntu shipped with
Bug seems to be present in the 14.04 (daily) iso as well
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If it helps anyone, I'm attaching casper.log, dmesg, and the results of
ls -l /dev from a failure.
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This problem can be recreated in a trivial VirtualBox environment by
attaching a virtual disk image with no partition table, such as a btrfs
volume occupying an entire device directly. I've attached a virtual
disk image of such a device. Simply attach this device as the only
harddisk to a
I've just seen this problem --- but in possibly a more useful context...
I am building a machine. It's got one DVD drive and one disk. I am
repeatedly installing a disk, booting a livecd, and examining the disk
to see what's on it, deciding I don't want to wipe this one, and moving
on to the next
With my configuration, UEFI and BIOS mode on my mother board GIGABYTE
z77X-D3H can't start ubuntu live (USB or DVD) since ubuntu 13.10 with 2
disks connected.
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Same problem here with ubuntu-13.10-desktop-amd64
(21ec41563ff34da27d4a0b56f2680c4f), but with booting on a live DVD. I
already have ubuntu-12.10-desktop-i386 installed on one of the hard
drives, but haven't been able to do a clean install or test of
ubuntu-13.10-desktop-amd64 due to running into
I had the same problem on a BIOS system. I have another laptop with 2
disks but it used UEFI to boot. It worked fine. Maybe try changing
your boot system.
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For information.
Same problem with the daily build, december 4th, of trusty (Ubuntu 14.04
LTS) with the 3.12 kernel.
For my part I have two dd formatted with etx4.
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And I can't remove the internal disks as it voids my warranty, nor can I
reformat the disk as it has Win 7 on it for support reasons. Looks like
this needs a higher priority to get fixed as I am still stuck on 12.04
(at least it is LTS).
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so... the stable Ubuntu release cannot be installed on systems with more
than one hard drive, or hard drives formatted with btrfs (in this case
both are true).
someone could probably safely decide may be important for modern
systems...
sure, tear your (notebook factor) hardware apart (including
So, same problem here.
Live 13.10 USB key created with usb-creator-gtk, tried on a Dell
Latitude E6400.
Yesterday, with an unformatted hard disk, it worked: live system came up
without trouble.
Today, with a harddisk formatted ext4 (whole disk; no partitions),
doesn't work. Boot bails out with
I'm personally running a pretty complicated setup with four hard drives,
so I'd really like to avoid having to unplug them for installation. Has
anyone found any solutions to this problem that doesn't require mucking
with the computer guts?
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I solved the issue by physically disconnecting one of my 4 drives,
installing 13.10 with Live-USB, and reconnecting the one HDD.
WDC WD5000AAKX-00ERMA0 (15.01H15) *
WDC WD1500ADFD-00NLR5 (21.07QR5)
SanDisk SDSSDP128G (2.0.0) - root
WDC WD5000AAKS-65YGA0 (12.01C02) *
* one of them was
removing all physical hard drives works for me too. the live cd starts.
i had two drives. removing one of them was not enough.
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Oupps... sorry, no ( after word OS
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If I summarize all the comments, it is not possible to install Ubuntu 13.10 if
you have multiple hard disks connected.
Does anyone have successfully installed 13.10 with more than one disc connected
?
Personally, I have a disc for OS (and another for datas (/home) . I concluded
that I can not
Problem solved (at least for me)!
This is valid for all PC's!
1. Remove all HDD's physically
2. Configure in BIOS your SATA port(s) hot-swap-capeable
3. Boot your PC with the Ubuntu 13.10 Live CD/USB device
4. Ignore error: no physical device found
5. If you are on GUI-level re-attach your
I had the same problem, but I was able to install 64-bit Ubuntu Studio
13.10 from DVD to (PNY 120GB) SSD after I removed my secondary HDD
(Samsung Spinpoint F1 640GB) power+SATA cables. After installation I put
the cables back and now the system works with both drives connected to
PC.
My PC
Hi, same problem with me
USB stick 8Go created with unetbootin and ubuntu 13.10 x64
Intel Core 2Duo
Ram 2Go
HD 750 Go + HD 1000 Go + SSD 60Go
Actually, my desktop works more less fine with Ubuntu 12.04 32bits
Many comments of this issue are about x64 version
Is it a 64 bits issue ?
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I no longer have this problem.
This is my setup and changes that I tried.
Clevo P150EM (custom BIOS by prema)
SSD (windows)
HDD (general data)
mSATA SSD (ubuntu)
I know the problem wasn't with the boot media itself. I tried different
USB ports, usb sticks and usb creator software packages
Same problem on my desktop. Hang on, who does this work for?
Core i3, Gigabyte motherboard. Haven't had any issues until this.
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gnome radio?? not sure that package is relevant here.
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Excuse me for this mistake.
It is the first time I create a report for Ubuntu.
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I had a similar issue with a 13.10 live DVD. It was fine until I had a
new SATA 2TB drive, then I could not run or install from the DVD, I just
got busybox and initramfs error and the PC was locked.
I read that this might be a SATA bios issue and the tip was to change
the SATA mode or choose RAID
I have also a secondary Sata hard drive.
I just try to disconnect it and test to boot on live DVD and live USB.
Both works without my secondary hard drive connected.
Thank you for this tip.
Have you more information about this “SATA bios issue”?
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Hmm, well this is pretty buggy. I'm not about to pull apart my computer
to get this to boot, I'd rather move to another distro.
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Same here!
USB stick (created by lili or startup disc creator), and also DVD from the
official Ubuntu 13.10 Desktop 64 bits iso ends with initramfs.
Motherboard: ASUS P5Q3
CPU: Intel Pentium Dual Core E6300 (2.8GHz)
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT640
RAM: 8 GB
BTW, the USB and DVD both worked for
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First, excuse me for my English I'm French.
I download ubuntu 13.10 64 bits iso. I check the MD5 sum and all is OK.
I create the live usb with usb-creator-gtk from my ubuntu 13.04.
I reboot my computer, it starts on the usb stick with the first ubuntu
I have this problem also.
My bootable usb stick was created in ubuntu 12.04 x64 with unetbootin.
Default and install options of unetbootin both were tried - boh fail
(busybox initramfs).
laptop: clevo p150em
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Same problem on my Lenovo U410 laptop. USB stick based on Ubuntu 13.10
64bit.
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Same here!
I created the USB stick from the official Ubuntu 13.10 Desktop 64 bits iso with
Universal USB Installer.
I tried to boot in UEFI and BIOS mode, both with this same effect.
Motherboard: ASRock Z87 Extreme 6
CPU: Intel Core i5-4570
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I've same problem with same protocol install.
Just different :
I create the live usb with start disk(usb) creator from my ubuntu 12.04
HW config :
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+
Motherboard A8N-E ASUSTeK Computer INC.
graphic card NV43 [GeForce 6600] NVIDIA Corporation
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I installed Ubuntu 13.10 (64) from DVD, not USB.
After few seconds loading from dvd-disk, I saw black screen:
=-==-=-=-
BusyBox...
(initramfs)
=-==-=-=-
:(
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z68AP-D3
CPU: i3-2120
GPU: GeForce 9800 GT
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Same here!
Tried to install from dvd and got the same result on one box but got it working
on the other.
Motherboard ASUS
GPU Radeon 5xxx
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