[Tfug] busy box problem

[Rich]

This may be irrelevant, as it applied to an ancient VAIO with an  
external CD using some weird (proprietary?) connector. I also realise  
you've solved it for yourself; but for the sake of completeness: I  
successfully booted the live CD on a PCG-Z505LS/Model PCG-531A with:

linux ide2=0x180,0x386

R.

On Jan 16, 2008, at 10:08 pm, Matthew Patenaude wrote:

> Guys,
>
> I am trying to help a friend check out Ubuntu on his Sony Vaio  
> laptop. His
> cd drive is bad, and I tried to boot into the liveCD via an  
> external DVD
> drive, and after choosing "Start or Install Ubuntu" I get put into  
> BusyBox
> initramfs. cat casper.log gives "no medium found on dev/scd0"
>
> Does that mean it is trying to run the live CD from the actual  
> cdrom instead
> of where it booted from? If so, how would I go about bypassing  
> that, if it
> is in fact possible?
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
> Matthew Patenaude
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