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mcmlvii
November 1st, 2010, 07:51 PM
I initiated the on-line upgrade from 8.04 LTS to 10.04 LTS. When the upgrade finished and restarted the computer, I got the following messages:
ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/32a1eb0a-c9a4-4867-ac4d-5fbb2acafa76 does not exist. opping to a shell!
BusyBox v1.13.3 (ubuntu 1:1.13.3-1 ubuntu11) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

(initramfs)

It leaves me at that initramfs prompt. Any suggestions for a remedy will be greatly appreciated.

mörgæs
November 2nd, 2010, 09:26 PM
Hi, welcome to the forum.

I would not waste much time on an upgrade which went astray. A reinstall often is a faster and better solution.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1580857

oldfred
November 2nd, 2010, 10:03 PM
mörgæs is probably correct. We often spend days fixing things when you can reinstall and be up and running in about an hour. But we still like to try to fix things.:)

I saved this but it is older now.

SOLUTION: Alert! /dev/disk/by-uuid/ ...<your UUID>.... does not exist
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1127779
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1565714
"If the “apt-get upgrade” does not successfully complete then a flag is set and update-initramfs does not get to run, hence grub gets all messed up. You should be able to boot using the old kernel and then run the sudo update-initramfs –u -k command. Then run sudo dpkg –reconfigure. That should clear the upgrade flags and fix any broken packages."