Xubuntu Live CD doesn't boot right on laptop
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu) |
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Medium
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Bug Description
I tried Xubuntu on two laptops. It booted up fine on Sony Vaio VGN-S360. I tried it on my older Sony Vaio PCG-SR33K and it doesn't boot up. First time, it got stuck after displaying:
/init: 1: cannot open /dve/sda: No media found
(It just went on and on with the same message.)
It didn't do anything after that for a while so I just shut it down. I figure it was complaining because there's no memory stick in the built-in memory stick reader. So I stuck a memory stick in the drive before a new attempt.
It took a long time saying:
Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel
The CD or the HD doesn't seems to be doing anything during this time. (No blinking lights.) It sits there saying that. (I've been watching the same screen for about five minutes.)
On another boot attempt I got the same display with the error with the /dev/sda, but it actually made it to a prompt.
Now it says:
/bin/sh: can't access tty: job control turned off
I chose "Start Xubuntu" from the main menu (using live CD). On the VGN-360, I booted to the screen with the cute mouse(?) background and it seemed ok.
I have a similar problem with a Sony Vaio. The model is PCG-505TX.
I'm presented with the boot options screen, and choose "Start Xubuntu". usplash comes up, but it gets stuck "mounting the root partition". The hard disk clicks periodically for about 10 seconds, and then I get dropped into a Busybox shell.
I think it could be because the CD drive is connected through a PCMCIA card. Perhaps those modules need to be loaded first?
Using an old Hoary Hedgehog beta CD instead works fine.