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salim.madni
April 30th, 2009, 04:43 PM
dear gurus how are you

i have installed couple of days before ubuntu 9.04 on windows to make pc dual boot and run as application

then for my kids, i installed edubuntu games and educational software

and it has been working fine 2 days. today i were working on ubuntu suddenly it get down due to power failure machine shutoff. when we restart we notice ubuntu is not booting.

it was all complete new/fresh installation no updrades

now it says
/hosts/ubuntu/disks/root.disk can not fine file

how ever when i boot from windows xp i see on same location the this file is in original status

and it show prompt

initramfs>

can you advise me can i fixed anyway somehow, what are the alternate options and all possible ways to fixed this.

since this is happend to me first time and no idea of command line much

thanks and highly appreciated

regards