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 changes for casper 1.339: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/casper/+bug/1293811 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1241589 Title: ubuntu 13.10 unable to boot on live usb (busy box - initramfs) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/casper/+bug/1241589/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs