I have the same problem with alpha6 (Ubuntu and kubuntu). After launching the liveCD, I enter the busybox.
In qemu, I notice the following unusual (for me) message before boot: [ 0.000000] ACPI: no DMI BIOS year, acpi=force is required to enable ACPI [ 14.464065] PCI : PIIX3: Enabling Passive Release on 0000:00:01.0 Loading, please wait... and then, after a little time of usual boot, it goes to the BusyBox, as described before. +++ Here is the description of another attempt I did. * Install K-Gutsy from live-CD * apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade * reboot * kdesu 'adept_manager --dist-upgrade-devel' (following http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/installer_une_version_instable) * reboot => BusyBox During the boot (and inside the busybox), the tty1 continuously says exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr x0x action 0x2 frozen cmd 00/00:00:00:24:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 pio 36 in status: {DRDY} After a while, it said me ata2 WARNING: synchronous SCSI scan failed without making any progress and then it continued "exception Emask 0x0 ..." Attached : lspci --vvnn Hope it helps, have a nice WE Laurent ** Attachment added: "lspci-vvnn.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12531780/lspci-vvnn.log -- Hardy alpha 2 - 5 won't boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/179336 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
