Greg Herdman wrote: > Hi Everyone, > Have just initialised our new batch of Toshiba laptops for our village > IT Group. These come with Microsoft Vista 'preinstalled' which has now > been completed. When I tried to use our Ubuntu 8.04 disc in Live User > mode, the laptop seemed to launch Ubuntu in the usual way, but part way > through the routine - when the usual migrating orange bar was showing - > it stopped with the following error messages on a black screen: > > udevd-event[1543]: run_program: '/sbin/modprobe' abnormal exit. > Busybox v1.1.3 (Debian 1:1.1.3-5 ubuntua12) Built-in shell (ash) > Enter 'help' for list of built-in commands. > (initramfs) > > I've used the same Ubuntu installation disc (from Thomas & Sicam's book) > on my Windows XP machine without problems, so what's going on? > > The new laptops are Toshiba Sarellite Pro L300-26R > > Thanks in anticipation. > > Greg > > >
It sounds to me like it got upset loading a module for a new bit of hardware you have on these laptops, possibly a bit of hardware that has changed since last year. Can you give it a go with a 9.04 CD and see if that works. Is there anything you can see that is different in the spec of these laptops (maybe a fingerprint reader or camera or some kind of integrated peripheral) Alan. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
