Ubuntu 11.04 Not booting

[thewhiteeye]

I installed Ubuntu 11.04 alongside windows XP. I booted into ubuntu two times and both times it worked fine. Now when I boot into ubuntu, it shows the following:


BusyBox v1.17.7 (Ubuntu 1:1.17.1-10ubuntu1) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

(initramfs)

and the cursor blinks at the end.

Please help me with this

Thanks

[daslinkard]

What size partition did you allow for when creating one for Linux?

[daslinkard]

It also seems that a way around it may be as follows:

Fixed it by opening grub menu (holding shift during startup) then choosing the recovery mode (there were 2 recovery modes, I chose the lower one ending in .31). It gave me the option then of fixing broken packages, which it then did automatically. It then allowed me to continue normal boot. This opened another command line screen, but with my login and password required, much like the terminal. After typing in login and password I typed "sudo reboot", entered my sudo password and everything was back to normal.