Problems booting live cd's and dvd's

AdamEW

AdamEW

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Hi there, I recently recieved a new dvd-rw drive (pioneer dvr-112D) for my pc, and I thought I would try some live linux cd's. Now I had Kubuntu 64bit AMD, installed before, but I have formatted recently. Thing is I cant seem to boot any live disks now, Ubuntu 64bit, kubuntu 64 bit give me the error
"/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off"

Ive searched for cures to this but anything said hasnt helped at all, 32 bit versions of ubuntu and kubuntu become corrupted at the loading screen. I thought I would try opensuse live dvd as well, just to make sure it wasnt a ubuntu problem and this is what I got :
http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/7276/limprd5.jpg
so, as you can see Im having some trouble, the only thing I can think to be causing the problems is the new dvd-rw drive as all the disks boot on my brothers computer. Any help would be really appreciated, thanks.
 
Its definitely the DVD drive. The error in the second pic basically means that the kernel can't locate the DVD drive. Off the top of my head, I've got no idea why this is happening; this drive is IDE isn't it? (SATA drives may have some problems)

The only thing I can suggest is to check the master/ slave settings- I've seen these cause some odd errors in the past.

Final point- Corruption on the Ubuntu splash screen isn't necessarily a bad thing per-se, the graphical splash can be a bit temperamental at times. Leave it for about 5 mins, if nothing happens its broke :p

-Leezer-
 
thanks for the replies guys, as you say it seems the error is coming from the dvd drive, it is a ide drive and I set it to master, would cable select be better?.. also as for the graphical corruption what happens is the bar passes back and forth then just stops and the actual "ubuntu" word goes grey. All of the disks work in my brothers computer and I can boot into a live environment so the disks must be written properly.
 
You should be able to boot into Verbose mode, even on a Live CD, which instead of having the graphical front end to the booting up sequence, it shows you exactly what is happening, so you could then see at which part it's falling over.

Have a look at the boot options, iirc there's the quiet option that you can remove to make it show what it's doing.
 
Either that or boot into (I forget the exact name) "safe graphics mode", I had to do that on my P4 system in order to get the live desktop to load and then I could do whatever I wanted :)
 
hi, just to report back, I tried booting without the quiet mode selected and although I saw some code flash up, it was too fast to see. Then I was returned to the "/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off" error. I have tried booting with safe graphics mode, that isnt what is causing my problem as I had booted into the kubuntu live environment before I got my new drive to install it.

Could it be a problem with the drive, should I return it? or have I just missed something?
 
Best I can really suggest ATM is pulling any other drives in the system and trying again.
You might also try re-detecting all the drives in the BIOS, but I'm afraid I'm clutching at straws here really :p

-Leezer-
 
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