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hello i was wondering if anyone could help me with a linux/ubuntu problem.
i have been having alot of problems trying to install ubuntu onto my computer but i have made a little progress. my 750 gb seagate barracuda sata drive wasnt being detected when trying to install but i followed this guide and it has helped me a little:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6525236&postcount=18

following this made it possible for me to detect the hard drive and follow the installation but once its installed and i reboot the computer goes into busybox instead of ubuntu saying it has given up trying to load the root device. ive rebooted several times with no luck and when running the live cd it doesnt detect my hard drive either, even though i have installed it onto the drive. im not sure what to do, any advice would be helpful, thank you

also, these are the specs of my PC
Asus A8V-x MoBo
AMD athlon 64 X2 processor
GEforce 6800 Graphics Card
1gb RAM

okay im new to this i need big help. my school got a new mac lab and they threw away the old ones. i asked for one and they gave it to me. its a power mac g4. im very knowledgeable about computers, the computer needed some work and it turns out that the harddrive had been completely formatted. there is no operation system on it and i do not have a boot cd. ive tried booting ubuntu linux but ubuntu requires a os to be on the computer. i have a live cd for linux from scratch and i would like to just put linux on it but every time i try to boot from a cd i just get the grey screen with the blinking file. to make matters worse i dint have a mac keyboard so im using a usb one. ive tried cmd-opn-f-o and holding down c and even comd-opn-shift-delete and nothings boots from the cd. ive put 15 hours in the past day to get this to work and im running out of ideas. PLEASE I BEG YOU. PLEASE HELP!!!! i will be eternally grateful. thanks again!
the problem with most of your answers is that ive tried al the comands and the wont work. ive tried just holding option key and nothing comes up. ive tried holding c key and nothing comes up. same with cmd optn f o. could it be the keyboard? i dont have a mac keyboard just a usb pc keyboard.

Ok so I recently forayed into the wonderful world of Linux by making a live cd and installing it on an old computer (not dual booting). I installed it few problems (well actually lots of problems but that was due to a dead hard drive). After I installed and booted up from the (good) hard drive everything ran great. The only weird thing I noticed was that the graphics on the live cd were better than on the hard drive. The menus were small and everything looked a bit sharper. I would like to know why this is and if possible how to change it back.Thank you I love Ubuntu it boots up faster than my newer pc. ^^

I’ve been meaning to install windows 7 on my laptop which was dual booting vista and ubuntu no problem. My end goal was to have vista, 7, and ubuntu next to each other. I decided that I also wanted a clean install of ubuntu. So I started out today by deleteing all the linux partitions and installing 7 on it. When it restarted I only had a blinking line. So I fixed mbr and fix boot. I fear that installing 7 in the free space beside vista and using a 7 install disk to fix the mbr it has damaged my vista partition. When I run a live cd it looks like all my files from vista are there but when I restart and try to boot it tells me I have a disk read error, please press ctrl+alt+del. ubuntu sees my vista partition as a windows 7 (loader) and it sees the 7 partition as just a nfts filesystem. Any ideas on how I can get vista to boot again?
Thanks for the help, but I figured it out a diffrent way.
1) I used gparted to remove the boot flag from the dead vista partition.
2) Installed 7 on a new partiton
3) Used the repair option on the vista disk, which automatically added the “recovered” vista partition to the boot loader and it boots.

It has nothing to do with the CD’s, I tried them on other computers, they worked fine. But I can’t get it to load on this dell computer…it just boots straight into Windows when I put the restart the computer with the CD in. I’ve also tried different version of Linux, none work.