Fed up with my earlier attempt to have a fully working system,

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...e-4520-607537/

I decided to move to Gutsy (It provides out of the box support to almost all the hardware that I have).

The problem now is the kernel won't boot. It just gets struck up at the splash screen.

There was a solution here.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=282956 &
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/ubuntu-edg...solutions.html

But how do I "Sudo" when the system doesn't even boot!!! Here these guys used i386 kernel to boot and issue commands. But Gutsy doesn't probably give such an option. There is only 2.6.22-14-generic & 2.6.22-14 recovery.
How do make initramfs script.


Kindly help!

I just read your previous post, and although I highly doubt you will want to consider this, if you're running into problems with hardware - above all - I've always found Gentoo to be the best for custom-tailoring system hardware profiles.

When it came to things like my graphics card (ATI Radeon 9600SE), Gentoo was the only distro I've used that allowed me full use of the card when the drivers were installed.

I don't run Gentoo on the machine though, I run Debian. Gentoo just takes too long to install and get up to a fully-usable state (fully-usable = everything I need it for, programs and such). Even in Debian, I can't use the "ati" driver - X just crashes and burns. When it came to Gentoo though, I used the "fglrx" driver and it always worked wonderfully.

I'm considering doing a Gentoo install over the Christmas holidays, as that'll be the only free time I have to devote to it.

If you do decide to resort to Gentoo as a possible solution, give yourself a full weekend.

Merry Christmas! Thanks man for that tip. But I really don't think am yet ready for Gentoo, I still have an average understanding of Linux.

Meanwhile

this is what I get (after sya, 5 minutes at splash screen)

Check root= bootarg cat /proc/cmdline
or missing modules, devices: cat /proc/modules ls /dev
ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/827cbda3-51a0-4e5d-a399-a90cef8c5514 does not exist. Dropping to a shell !

Busybox v1 .1 .3 (Debian....)

(initramfs)_


I don't know what the heck it means...
my kernel version is 2.6.22-14-generic

Hi, did you find any solution to this problem? I have been fighting with it for more than 2 days without any luck.

I am trying to install Ubuntu Gutsy on Acer 4520 (AMD Athlon 64 bit, 4 GB RAM, SATA hard-disk).

I am also being dropped to the busybox shell.

Regards,

-Deepak

I really apologize - I never mess around with stuff like this. When this sort of this happens, I usually just switch distros. I've settled on Debian, and I suggest you do the same.

Ubuntu is Debian-based, but I've always found it a little too clunky for one reason or another. Don't shun Debian due to a lack of Linux prowess, though, the installer is easy to follow, just make sure you read everything carefully (as should be done with any installer).

I've been able to get a Debian system installed and running in less than 20 minutes. If you decide to go this route, the #1 thing I recommend is when picking package profiles (you'll see what I mean), DO NOT highlight the "Desktop Environment" choice - it will easily up the install time to an hour and you may not want some of the fluff that comes with it.

I got it running from the help here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=649135

There is no easy way out or try Suse 10.3 heard it has out of the box support for nVidia chipset.