IReadTheManual
August 26th, 2011, 11:34 PM
Hello, I am writing this from a LiveDVD of 11.04. My machine, which is an Inspiron1501 with AMD64 dualcore crashed while running a working copy of 10.04LTS 32bit. At first Harddrived seemed unrecoverable, but not that may not be the case if I can mount it. HD is partitioned as
1 FAT which holds the OEM installer
1 NTFS with a sub/ virtual NTFS (not as a file, but as a "partition", only readable from WinXX)
1 Linux Swap
1 Linux Extention 3 (I believe it is 3, as in EXT FS 3)
Machine initially displayed:
[ 2.736258] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x50
No init found. Try passing init= bootarg.
BusyBox v1.13.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.13.3-1ubuntu11) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
(initramfs)_
After following some advice, I booted into Win and shutdown cleanly. Which has made the machine only say this on boot:
No init found. Try passing init= bootarg.
BusyBox v1.13.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.13.3-1ubuntu11) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
(initramfs)_
Now, to make things a little more complicated, my home directory is encrypted. Could I just copy that over to a new install provided I can get it to mount?
I would like to salvage this install if possible. Anyone ever dealt with this before?
Thanks!!
PS. I am a power user, I think. Feel free to say non-gui solutions if you know them
1 FAT which holds the OEM installer
1 NTFS with a sub/ virtual NTFS (not as a file, but as a "partition", only readable from WinXX)
1 Linux Swap
1 Linux Extention 3 (I believe it is 3, as in EXT FS 3)
Machine initially displayed:
[ 2.736258] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x50
No init found. Try passing init= bootarg.
BusyBox v1.13.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.13.3-1ubuntu11) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
(initramfs)_
After following some advice, I booted into Win and shutdown cleanly. Which has made the machine only say this on boot:
No init found. Try passing init= bootarg.
BusyBox v1.13.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.13.3-1ubuntu11) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
(initramfs)_
Now, to make things a little more complicated, my home directory is encrypted. Could I just copy that over to a new install provided I can get it to mount?
I would like to salvage this install if possible. Anyone ever dealt with this before?
Thanks!!
PS. I am a power user, I think. Feel free to say non-gui solutions if you know them