Initramfs Error During Boot

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Ubuntu Busybox Initramfs Prompt

and answer site for Ubuntu users and developers. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a initramfs error in ubuntu 14.04 busybox question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top Boot drops to a (initramfs) prompts/busybox up vote 49 down vote favorite 18 I am running an HP pavilion dv6000 dual boot win7 and Ubuntu 12.04. (well, up boot drops to a (initramfs) prompts/busybox until today). After a reboot, the boot process drops to the BusyBox shell and I end up at the prompt: BusyBox v1.18.5 (Ubuntu 1:1.18.5-1ubuntu4) built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands. (initramfs) I've been researching others who have had this same problem, but haven't been able to find any of those solutions to work for me. I tried the method described here, and after the final command mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /root -o force it does nothing and gives me another

Ubuntu Not Booting Initramfs

(initramfs) prompt. I can boot to a live CD (USB) and get to a terminal, but it doesn't seem to do much good, as I can see the /dev/sda1 in the ls command, but it doesn't recognize it when I try to cd to it. One more question: using the command fdisk -l how can I tell which mount point (sda1/sda2) is my windows partition and which one is Ubuntu? boot initramfs share|improve this question edited Feb 19 '14 at 8:56 karel 22.7k95366 asked May 16 '12 at 2:04 dpm 246133 This was the winner, BTW cyberciti.biz/faq/… –dpm May 17 '12 at 1:30 1 I can't believe Canonical hasn't implemented yet a proper user-friendly workflow to fix this situation :( –knocte Jul 12 at 3:35 There has to be a better way to fix the case. You do not need Live Ubuntu for the task, since I have managed to solve it without it. I think you can fix the thing even in (inittramfs). –Masi Aug 18 at 5:57 add a comment| 4 Answers 4 active oldest votes up vote 48 down vote It seems that you have a bad superblock. To fix this: Firstly, boot into a live CD or USB Find out your partition number by using sudo fdisk -l|grep Linux|grep -Ev 'swap' Then, list all superblocks by using the command: sudo dumpe2fs /dev/sda2 | grep superblock Replace sda2 to your drive number You should get a similar output like this Primary superblock at 0, Gr

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Ubuntu Initramfs Unable To Find A Medium

how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top Initramfs error during boot up vote 5 down vote favorite 1 Boot from (hd0,0) ext3 238ac8ca-9576-443d-8e23-8dd836cd2683 Starting up http://askubuntu.com/questions/137655/boot-drops-to-a-initramfs-prompts-busybox ... mount: mounting /dev/disk/by-uuid/238ac8ca-9576-443d-8e23-8dd836cd2683 on /root failed: Invalid argument mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: No such file or directory mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory mount: mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: No such file or directory Target filesystem doesn't have requested /sbin/init. No init found. Try passing init= bootarg. BusyBox v1.15.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.15.3-1ubuntu5) built in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands. root init initramfs share|improve this question edited Feb 10 http://askubuntu.com/questions/25695/initramfs-error-during-boot '11 at 23:44 htorque 37.6k25147197 asked Feb 10 '11 at 19:34 user10593 1 Why a bounty, given the asking user is not seen on askubuntu from "Feb 12 at 16:04"? –enzotib Aug 26 '11 at 20:08 2 But i need the answer for this, as i faced this issue few months back. –karthick87 Aug 27 '11 at 4:04 @karthick87: but are you the same user as @user10593? if not, why not open a new question, we cannot get anymore details from the asking user. –enzotib Aug 27 '11 at 11:37 Lol i am not that user. I thought that the existing user was regularaly using this site.. –karthick87 Aug 28 '11 at 5:43 add a comment| 3 Answers 3 active oldest votes up vote 5 down vote +100 Try the steps listed in this page: How to Fix an Ubuntu Error: "No init found. Try passing init= bootarg" Basically, Reboot with a live CD sudo fdisk -l will get you the name of the disk then sudo fsck /dev/sda share|improve this answer edited Sep 21 '11 at 7:50 enzotib 44.7k492126 answered Apr 7 '11 at 21:40 realgt 55145 1 for me it was sudo fsck /dev/sda1, but worked a champ, even though it couldn't mount. sweet! –rogerdpack Nov 22 '13 at 19:04 What does fsck do? In general and in this case. That is also not explained in

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How it looks? Basic commands available. The Rescue Shell. After Booting the system. As GRUB 2's ability to fix boot problems has greatly improved over the original GRUB bootloader. This article provides you with information on available options for repairing GRUB 2 boot issues and specific instructions on how to use the GRUB 2 terminal. The instructions are written for GRUB 2. How it looks? There are basically three error messages or screens when GRUB fails to boot. grub>: This is the screen mode you see when GRUB has found everything except the configurationn file. This file probably will be grub.conf. grub rescue>: This is the mode when GRUB 2 is unable to find the GRUB folder or its contents are missing/corrupted. The GRUB 2 folder contains the menu, modules and stored environmental data. GRUB: Just "GRUB" nothing else indicates GRUB 2 failed to find even the most basic information needed to boot the system. These are the basic errors that may occur during booting. Although there are a few more errors that can be seen on the screen like frozen splash screen, Busybox or Initramfs: GRUB 2 began.... But each of the GRUB 2 failure modes can be corrected either from GRUB 2 terminal or the Live boot CD or DVD of the distro, there are also 3rd party rescue tools available out there. Basic commands available. These are the commands that can be used when you enter the GRUB 2 terminl mode by pressing "c". boot (Initiate the boot, also F10 or CTRL-x) cat (view the contents of config or txt files; cat (hd0,1)/boot/grub/grub.cfg) configfile (Load a GRUB 2 configuration file such as grub.cfg; configfile (hd0,5)/boot/grub/grub.cfg.) initrd (Loads the initrd.img, necessary for booting; initrd (hd0,5)/initrd.img.) insmod (Loads a module; insmod (hd0,5)/boot/grub/normal.mod, or insmod normal.) linux (Loads the kernel; insmod