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August 26th, 2014, 11:45 PM
I have a 2012 HP Pavilion Slimline with a 1T Hard drive, 4GB RAM and it came pre-loaded with Windows 7 home. Installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS in 2012 and have since upgraded to 12.04. Upgraded to 14.04 Aug. 18, the process took a little more than an hour and at some point a prompt asked a yes/no question (that I cannot remember.) I answered yes and it continued. When the upgrade was finished I pressed the restart option the Update Manager closed but the desktop froze. After about 5 minutes I forced a shutdown. I selected Ubuntu at the grub menu below is what appeared Ubuntu did not:
Mount: mounting /dev/loop0 on /root failed: invalid argument
Mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: No such file or directory
Mount: mounting /proc on/ root / sys failed: No such file or directory
Target filesystem doesn't have requested /sbin/init
No init found. Try passing init = bootarg
BusyBox v1.21.1 (Ubuntu 1:1.21.0-1 ubuntu 1) built-in shell (ash)
Enter ‘help’ for a list of built-in commands
(initramfs)
The only way to get out of the screen was to do another forced shutdown. I have spent the week reading posts, bug reports, Wubi mega-thread, etc., and the only thing close to this problem was a thread of five posts "Trouble upgrading 12.04 to 14.04" but no solution. I have burned a 14.04.1 iso DVD from the ubuntu site (though I think it is faulty as the graphics and options are dissimilar to what is shown on the site) and attempted the noorez hassam initramfs fix suggested by hakuna-matata but the terminal says that distribution is read only. Also purchased an external hard Drive and backed up my windows files and made a system image as I have read that a new install tends to erase rather than partition and confirmed as much by partially going through the install process to find that the Windows OS was not recognized and selecting something else did not inactivate the first option. Only need to retrieve (if possible) bank statement pdfs and a spreadsheet - how can I do that?
Mount: mounting /dev/loop0 on /root failed: invalid argument
Mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: No such file or directory
Mount: mounting /proc on/ root / sys failed: No such file or directory
Target filesystem doesn't have requested /sbin/init
No init found. Try passing init = bootarg
BusyBox v1.21.1 (Ubuntu 1:1.21.0-1 ubuntu 1) built-in shell (ash)
Enter ‘help’ for a list of built-in commands
(initramfs)
The only way to get out of the screen was to do another forced shutdown. I have spent the week reading posts, bug reports, Wubi mega-thread, etc., and the only thing close to this problem was a thread of five posts "Trouble upgrading 12.04 to 14.04" but no solution. I have burned a 14.04.1 iso DVD from the ubuntu site (though I think it is faulty as the graphics and options are dissimilar to what is shown on the site) and attempted the noorez hassam initramfs fix suggested by hakuna-matata but the terminal says that distribution is read only. Also purchased an external hard Drive and backed up my windows files and made a system image as I have read that a new install tends to erase rather than partition and confirmed as much by partially going through the install process to find that the Windows OS was not recognized and selecting something else did not inactivate the first option. Only need to retrieve (if possible) bank statement pdfs and a spreadsheet - how can I do that?