Put in an extra cable to put the IDE hard drive on IDE2, while the CDROM is on IDE1. Ubuntu booted right up, no "can't access tty" errors.
Attached is syslog from the successful boot with CDROM on IDE1 & HD on IDE2. Next option might be to try a different hard drive on IDE1 with the CDROM..... Cheers, Jerry ** Attachment added: "syslogIDE2" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7339869/syslogIDE2 -- Feisty boot fail "can't access tty" IDE SATA problem https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/106864 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs