Ubuntu
casper package

Dell Dimension 8200 LiveCD and alternate CD don't boot properly

Bug #157260 reported by Falconix on 2007-10-25

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	casper (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

This bug start to occur in Feisty Fawn an still in Gutsy Gibbon

When i try to boot from the Alternate CD it loads and after that the computer
have search after hardware and it's begins to Detecting the CD it fails
and wants modules.

in /dev/
I can't see /dev/cdrom or anything else which can be mapped to the CD drive

when i try to mount a floppy, USB sticks or the hard drives i only get
mount --- invalid argument

When i try to start the Live CD of Gutsy Gibbon i get this at my screen
bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off

This is my cat casper.log from LiveCD

/init : /init: 1: cannot open /dev/fd0 no such device or adress
/init : /init: 1: cannot open /dev/sda : no such file
/init : /init: 1: cannot open /dev/sda1 : no such file
/init : /init: 1: cannot open /dev/sda2 : no such file
/init : /init: 1: cannot open /dev/sda3 : no such file
/init : /init: 1: cannot open /dev/sda5 : no such file
/init : /init: 1: cannot open /dev/fd0 : no such device or adress
stdin : error 0
/init : /init: 1: cannot open /dev/fd0 : no such device or adress
stdin : error 0
/init : /init: 1: cannot open /dev/fd0 : no such device or adress
stdin : error 0
/init : /init: 1: cannot open /dev/fd0 : no such device or adress
stdin : error 0
/init : /init: 1: cannot open /dev/fd0 : no such device or adress
stdin : error 0
/init : /init: 1: cannot open /dev/fd0 : no such device or adress
stdin : error 0
/init : /init: 1: cannot open /dev/fd0 : no such device or adress
stdin : error 0
/init : /init: 1: cannot open /dev/fd0 : no such device or adress
stdin : error 0
/init : /init: 1: cannot open /dev/fd0 : no such device or adress
stdin : error 0
/init : /init: 1: cannot open /dev/fd0 : no such device or adress
stdin : error 0
/init : /init: 1: cannot open /dev/fd0 : no such device or adress
stdin : error 0
/init : /init: 1: cannot open /dev/fd0 : no such device or adress
stdin : error 0
/init : /init: 1: cannot open /dev/fd0 : no such device or adress
stdin : error 0
/init : /init: 1: cannot open /dev/fd0 : no such device or adress
stdin : error 0
/init : /init: 1: cannot open /dev/fd0 : no such device or adress
stdin : error 0
Unable to find a medium containing a live file system

This is maybe not relevant to this bug report, but it can maybe help.

This is the dmesg from edgy eft
http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/42071/

This is the dmesg from feisty fawn
http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/42072/

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Falconix (falconix) wrote on 2007-10-26:

casper.log Edit (6.1 KiB, text/plain)

Here is a full casper.log from the Gutsy Gibbon LiveCD

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James Collier (james-collier412) wrote on 2008-08-30:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

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Javier Jardón (jjardon) wrote on 2008-12-07:

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!