I found the solution to my problem! I noticed that the BIOS did not recognize one of my optical drives, and figured that one of the cables might be loose. Surely enough, after unplugging and replugging the power and ATA cables for my 2 optical drives, Ubuntu boots just fine.
--- Shouldn't Ubuntu: 1) Boot anyway (as Windows does), since a broken optical drive is not fatal to running the system? (I'm not sure if Ubuntu eventually _would_ boot, but I got tired after watching the error messages loop for ~3 minutes) 2) Give the user a more reasonable error message? Something like: "ATA hard drive error: Connection to the hard drive located at the second ATA slot failed. Please check the cable connection". -- Hangs on startup https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/202938 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
