Start Up Grub Problem

[Webster12]

Hi,

So I was trying to open my laptop this morning and it took me a while to do so....but it did't look normal and it froze...so I restarted.

And it took forever...snd it is not loading.

I was led to...something that says.

GNUE GRUB VERSION 1.98+20100804-5UBUNTU3

*IN BOX*
UBUNTU, W/ LINUX 2.6.35-24-GENERIC
UBUNTU, W/ LINUX 2.6.35-24-GENERIC (RECOVERY MODE)
UBUNTU, W/ LINUX 2.6.35-22-GENERIC
UBUNTU, W/ LINUX 2.6.35-22-GENERIC (RECOVERY MODE)
mEMORY TEST (MEMTEST86+)
MEMORY TEST (MEMTEST86+, SERIAL CONSOLE 115200)

USE *UP* AND *DOWN* KEYS TO SELECT WHICH ENTRY IS HIGHLIGHTED.
PRESS ENTER TO BOOT THE SELECTED OS, 'E' TO EDIT THE COMMENDS BEFORE BOOTING OR 'C' FOR A COMMAND LINE.

I did some updates yesterday buy i've restarted it twice and all looked well...not sure why this is happening now.

Please help. thanks in advance.

[drs305]

Does it boot if you select one of the options?

It could be that Grub2 is detecting a problem and doesn't proceed automatically to allow the user to select the option he/she wants. It accomplishes a 'recordfail' check and if it detects a problem it won't boot automatically.

If you post the contents of the RESULTS.txt from the boot info script we can see if there is a problem with the boot files:
http://bootinfoscript.sourceforge.net

[amjjawad]

Oh, it's you again?
I'm sorry you have another problem in a very short time.

Please follow drs305's instructions and/or answer his questions

[Webster12]

well i've tried the first 2.

1st one says error because i do not have /sbin/init

second one says, 'no init found' try passing init= bootarg
(initramfs)

[Webster12]

Oh, it's you again?
I'm sorry you have another problem in a very short time.

Please follow drs305's instructions and/or answer his questions

lots of bad luck for me these days...

[wilee-nilee]

lots of bad luck for me these days...

Post the bootscript as suggested.

[drs305]

For a possible quick fix, try highlighting the first entry in the Grub2 menu, press "e", remove the "search" line completely and change the UUID in the linux line to "... root=/dev/sdXY" ... then CTRL-x and see if it boots.

Change XY to your Ubuntu partition (sda5, etc).

[Webster12]

If you post the contents of the RESULTS.txt from the boot info script we can see if there is a problem with the boot files:
http://bootinfoscript.sourceforge.net

I am not sure how to accomplish this...it won't log me in.

[amjjawad]

lots of bad luck for me these days...

Nuh, it happens.
Just follow drs305's post as he asked you to post the result of the boot script
All the instructions you need are inside that link.

[Webster12]

it says

No init found. Try passing init...
busybox v1.15.3 .... built in shell (ash)

Am I suppose to just remove UUID?