Will not boot into GUI on Inspiron 530

[Sean Watson]

I have an Inspiron 530. When I try to boot using the install mode or try it out modes, it won't boot into the gui.

The loading gui with bouncing bars beneath the logo appears, but then it disappears, and busybox prompt just appears. I don't know what to do.

I tried safe video mode, but that failed. 7.10 worked fine. My system is a Core 2 Duo E6550, 2GB Ram, Geforce 8300 GS. The drives are set to IDE mode.

[Sean Watson (sean.watson)]

Same thing as this happens here, but i use Beta 1:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/188304/+viewstatus

[Saivann Carignan (oxmosys)]

Thanks for your bug report. This bug is a duplicate of bug 153702 so I mark it as such. A workaround to fix your issue is to go in the BIOS of your computer (F2 at boot), then go in "Integrated peripherals" and then change "SATA mode" from "IDE" to "RAID". Note that when changing IDE to RAID, if you also have Windows operating system on your computer, it may stop booting with RAID since Windows is not able to use "real SATA" without additional drivers.