Getting "Unable to find a medium containing a live file system" when installing 10.10

Posted by Krastin Konstantinov on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Krastin Konstantinov
Published on 2011-02-17T01:48:43Z Indexed on 2011/02/17 7:33 UTC
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I got this error while trying to install ubuntu 10.10 from a bootable USB stick on to Sony Vaio P series laptop. The disk boots into the language and installation type screen. After that it goes through the splash and pulls up this error:

BusyBox v1.13.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.13.3-ubuntu11) built in shell (ash)

Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

(initramfs) Unable to find a medium containing a live file system

After getting this error the installation fails to start.

I have used the same USB stick on some other laptops and the installation started as usual. Any help will be appreciated.

My installation is i386 and my machine is Vaio P VGN-P610.

I've tried every possible thing:

Bios: [enable boot external]

Boot order: [external] [hard drive] [network boot]

Tried 2 different USB drives

Tried 2 different external CD drives

Tried 6 different downloads of both the desktop and netbook remix.

All downloads were checked with MD5SUM.

Ubuntu Desktop 9.10 installs properly in every version and from every source.

Getting reaaaally frustrated.

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