Unable to find a medium containing live file system
Bug #817145 reported by
Cody A.W. Somerville
This bug affects 9 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Downloaded and burnt Ubuntu 11.04 (Ubiquity installer) to DVD on friend's computer. Attempted to boot but was dropped to busybox with error 'Unable to find a medium containing live file system'. After finding a USB->PS/2 adapter so keyboard would work, I looked at casper.log and found the error message '/init: line 7: can't open /dev/sdb: No medium found' repeated numerous times followed by 'Unable to find a medium containing a live file system'.
WORKAROUND: Modifying BIOS settings to use AHCI instead of IDE for sata related stuff fixed the issue.
description: | updated |
Changed in casper (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
description: | updated |
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I have the very same problem with (X)Ubuntu 11.04 (normal and alternate) i386 on a very new Dell OptiPlex 390 system. HDD is on SATA-0. The DVD ROM is on SATA-1. BusyBox v1.17.1 appears after selecting 'try Ubuntu without installation' telling me that it's unable to find a medium containing live file system. Changing HDD and DVD from SATA-0 to SATA-1 and vice versa does not solve the problem.
I'm able to install (X)Ubuntu from a USB device, but then no CD/DVD shows up. It's not visible in the Gnome Disk Utility and there's nothing I can do about it. The DVD ROM runs in Windows7 without any problems.
DELL BIOS does not have any settings (like AHCI or IDE) for the SATA devices, except [ ] DISABLE and [X] ATA (SATA is configured for ATA mode). Of course [X] DISABLE does not help at all.
A Linux Mint XFCE on a USB started as Live System can find and mount the DVD ROM with any media inserted (CD, DVD).