Sorry-New Problem

[Richard Schwai]

I took the advice of several people and read about the fsck command.  I
decided to boot without any utilities and see if I could use fsck from the
busybox shell.  Instead, the system booted to the Ubuntu Welcome screen and
informed me that a disk data error had been detected.  It asked me if I
wanted to let the system try to fix it or proceed manually.  I selected the
fix option.  After about 20 seconds, the system rebooted again and brought
up the Ubuntu sign in menu.  I signed in and everything worked.

To summarize from the beginning,  after I had my initial problem I tried
multiple boots only to be put in the busybox shell each time.  After
downloading and creating a UBCD, I booted and saved files.  I then rebooted
to use fsck and the system gave me the Ubuntu welcome screen and asked if I
wanted to repair the data error.  After repairing the data error, the system
rebooted itself and gave me the Ubuntu sign in screen.  I don't know what
UBCD did to fix the system enough to allow a boot to the Ubuntu Welcome
screen but it did something.  The prompt to fix might have triggered
executing the fsck command.

The bottom line is I am back to normal thanks to a lot of great help.  I
hope documenting this problem might help someone in the future.

Thanks again,

Rick Schwai

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Richard Schwai <rick.schwai at gmail.com>wrote:

> This AM my wife booted 10.04 and used Ubuntu with Firefox.  About 10
> minutes later, I noticed that no image was on our LCD screen.  I thought she
> failed to  turn off the LCD so I turned off the power switch to everything
> not realizing that the system was still running.  I rebooted and wound up in
> Busybox/initramfs.  I exited intramfs and received the following message:
> /init: line 271 : can't open /root/dev/console: no such file kernel panic –
> not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
>
> Pid: 1, comm: init Tainted G D 2.6.32-30-generic #59-Ubuntu
>
> After researching I found out Busybox is a light bash shell.  My guess is
> that my hard drive has failed.  I hope I am wrong.  Is there anything I can
> do to restore ubuntu without losing my data?
>
>
> Rick Schwai
>
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