Celena LiveCD Errors [SOLVED]

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Hey all,
Recently bought a shiny new HP dv6700 (2.2ghz Core 2 Duo, 3GB ram, 256mb nvidia geforce 8400m gs) notebook, and I'm running into trouble trying to boot from a LiveCD.

I've already been through the "Troubleshooting your LiveCD" wiki, without much luck.

Disabling the quiet and splash bootup options, it hangs up after

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[5.856000] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
[5.860000] sd 0:0:0:0: Attach scsi  generic sg0 type 0

with the message and prompt

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BusyBox v1.1.3 (Debian 1:1.1.3-3ubuntu3) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
(initramfs)

the casper.log file contains the following:

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mount: Mounting /dev/sda1 on /cdrom failed: No such device
mount: Mounting /dev/sda1 on /cdrom failed: No such device
mount: Mounting /dev/sda1 on /cdrom failed: No such device
mount: Mounting /dev/sda1 on /cdrom failed: No such device
mount: Mounting /dev/sda1 on /cdrom failed: No such device
mount: Mounting /dev/sda1 on /cdrom failed: No such device
mount: Mounting /dev/sda1 on /cdrom failed: No such device
mount: Mounting /dev/sda1 on /cdrom failed: No such device
mount: Mounting /dev/sda1 on /cdrom failed: No such device
mount: Mounting /dev/sda1 on /cdrom failed: No such device
mount: Mounting /dev/sda1 on /cdrom failed: No such device
Unable to find a medium containing a live file system

Adding the "noapic" boot option, it gets a wee bit further in the boot process before being dumped to the BusyBox prompt. casper.log then contains:

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/init: /init: 1: cannot open /dev/sda: No such file
/inti: /init: 1: cannot open /dev/sda: No such file
mount: Mounting /dev/sda1 on /cdrom failed: No such device
mount: Mounting /dev/sda1 on /cdrom failed: No such device
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Unable to find a medium containing a live file system

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
John

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Update:

Following a post with a similar issue on UbuntoForums, I added "all_generic"ide" to the boot options, along with removing "splash" and "quiet".

It booted successfully (except for the lame 800x600 resolution from using Safe Graphics Mode). For now, I'll install it alongside Vista and hope nothing breaks too badly :p

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Installed fine, plays nicely(ish) with Vista.

Finishing up tweaking the Vista BCD bootloader to handle launching Linux, and I'll be rock and rolling