Ubuntu PATA driver issue?

[vodhner at cox.net]

Thanks, Bryan.  Apparently nobody has anything to add . . .

My friend downloaded the latest daily and still no dice.
He's booting with a CD in a DVD device, and gets the
initial menu -- install / check CD / etc.  If you select any
of those options, it fails as described below, because it
can't see that same CD that it booted from.

He demonstrated the problem to me on Sunday.  Ends
up at a busybox prompt.  I tried a few incantations to
query /dev/hdd but could not think of anything meaningful.

So maybe as you say he should try 6.06 and see if it works
any better.  He was not dead set on 7.04.

I'm happily running 7.04 now, but X was broken when
I finished upgrading so I had to do a fresh install.

I do my Linux desktop installs on a single partition,
and keep all my "stuff" elsewhere, so I was able to trash
that partition and start over.  I've now learned that it's
good to keep a list of the desired packages around
so I can download them all at once.

Still no &)(*#$#!!! MIDI capability for my sound card, and
apparently nobody can recommend a sound card with
decent drivers for MIDI.  But I'm doing great with ripping
and playing MP3s with grip and lame; that went really
very smoothly once I knew the following:

  Encoder executable:  /usr/bin/lame

  Encoder command-line:  -m j --clipdetect --preset extreme -q 0 --vbr-new -V 0 -b %b %w %m

  Encode file extension:  mp3

  Encode file format:  ~/mp3/%A/%d/%n.mp3

Thanks for the support,

Vic

---- Bryan O'Neal <BONeal at cornerstonehome.com> wrote: 

Well, I see that there are only two real choices (not being masochistic
enough to try and force a fix) You can either wait for the fixed install
CD to be released, or install a prior version (like 6.06) and upgrade to
7.04.

What does every one else say, is there an easer solution?

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 1:23 PM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Ubuntu PATA driver issue?

A friend of mine (a very competent Windows-based engineer who
tries Linux frequently but hasn't done real well yet) just tried to
bring up Ubuntu and ran into this problem:

> I decided to try ubuntu on my Linux system get an impression
> of how it's presented to a generally knowledgeable but Linux
> distro challenged user.

> I was partway convinced when you made that choice and then
> Michael Dell clinched it for me.

> I downloaded the installation CD and tried running it "live" and
> when that didn't work, I tried plunging ahead and told it to install.
> In both cases I got the following message at the start of the
> operation:

> BusyBox v1.1.3 (Debian 1:1.1.3-3ubuntu3) Built-in shell (ash)

> Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

> /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off

> (initramfs)

> When I researched this, I found that there are a LOT of reports of
> this same problem.  I've only gone through one support organization
> so far but there responses seemed to be overwhelmingly arrogant.
> Can you suggest a support URL that might be interested in resolving
> a problem. 

> It appears that ubuntu 7.04 was released with bad pata (IDE) drivers
> in the package.

Any help will be highly appreciated.

Vic