darkorical
May 19th, 2009, 10:57 AM
I have a computer that worked great for 3 months running 8.04 (and was probably never shutdown in that time)
someone tried to reboot it the other day and it came up that it couldn't find its hard drive most of the time but they said that occasionally they would try to boot it and it would bring something that said
as they described it "
The word grub with two arrowy thingies on either side and we could type there" Gotta love those technical descriptions from end users don't you.
Im assuming they mean something like
<grub>
So I brought it in to look at it. When I turned it on if found the hard drive and started up just fine and showed the ubuntu logo and the scrolling bar for a min or so then it simply goes to
BusyBox v1.1.3 (Debian 1:1.1.3-5ubuntu12) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
(initramfs)
So I rebooted and when it offered the grub menu I entered and selected recovery mode and it gives me
Check root= bootarg cat /proc/cmdline
or missing modules, devices: cat /proc/modules ls /dev
ALERT! /dev/disk//by-uuid/fee79d8c-8a74-440e-b15c-f1de354f1e08 does not exist. Dropping to a shell
BusyBox v1.1.3 (Debian 1:1.1.3-5ubuntu12) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
(initramfs)
any help or suggestions would be appreciated
someone tried to reboot it the other day and it came up that it couldn't find its hard drive most of the time but they said that occasionally they would try to boot it and it would bring something that said
as they described it "
The word grub with two arrowy thingies on either side and we could type there" Gotta love those technical descriptions from end users don't you.
Im assuming they mean something like
<grub>
So I brought it in to look at it. When I turned it on if found the hard drive and started up just fine and showed the ubuntu logo and the scrolling bar for a min or so then it simply goes to
BusyBox v1.1.3 (Debian 1:1.1.3-5ubuntu12) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
(initramfs)
So I rebooted and when it offered the grub menu I entered and selected recovery mode and it gives me
Check root= bootarg cat /proc/cmdline
or missing modules, devices: cat /proc/modules ls /dev
ALERT! /dev/disk//by-uuid/fee79d8c-8a74-440e-b15c-f1de354f1e08 does not exist. Dropping to a shell
BusyBox v1.1.3 (Debian 1:1.1.3-5ubuntu12) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
(initramfs)
any help or suggestions would be appreciated