My problem was Backtrack5 R3 (KDE & Knome X32(Both)) was dooing the same thing...."(initramfs) Unable to find a medium containing a live file system."
turns out it was because (yes looking back I know it was stupid) My Bootloader (YUMI & EadyBDC was NOT recognizing my Intel Raid Storage Driver.... Specs aside I ended up using UNetbootin.....and holy shit it found my storage driver....booted into Backtrack 5R3 in KDE and Gnome Versions no problem. Point being, If you have a problem booting into this via USB and have a 3rd party Storage driver installed (or Intel Raid/MB Raid driver installed) Try Unetbootin.... http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ By the way I am not running RAID, I just have the driver Installed... so I get the CTRL+I prompt EveryBoot to Setup RAID. Intel Pentium D 3.0Ghz CPU Intel D945GPM Motherboard ( Bios NT94510J.86A - 4131.EB) 2 GB DDR2 667Mhz (2x1GB sticks) *Intel ICH7R/DH SATA RAID CONTROLLER* WD640 (WD6401AALS) Seagate 80GB (ST380815AS) WD 250GB (WD2500YS) thought I would share my problem... By the way it also did this with Trinity Rescue The newest to date -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/543875 Title: unable to find a medium containing a live file system To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/casper/+bug/543875/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
