David_Leigh
March 29th, 2016, 11:52 AM
Hi Ubuntu Community
I am hoping you can help me. I have searched the forums for related content but have not found a similar problem hence this post. I was upgrading from 12.04 to 14.04. everything was going well and it had just finished downloading all the packages and had just started the process of removing the obsolete software. At this point I really needed to go to sleep (at this point it was 2.30am) and thought that I might be able to suspend the computer and then recommence in the morning. When I did log back into the computer it came up with a 'restart the computer' option. I pressed cancel as I thought that I would be able to continue with the process. Unfortunately not. when I went to restart the computer the logging off part of the menu came up with square symbols and no option to shutdown so did a forced shutdown.
On booting the computer I get the following
mount: mounting /dev /loop0 on /root failed:Iinvalid argument
mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: no such file or directory
mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: no such file or directory
mount: mounting /proc on root/proc/ 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 1:1.21.0-1ubuntu1) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
At the command line (intramfs) when you type 'help' it comes up with the following
. : [alias break cd chdir command continue echo eval exec exit
export falst getopts hash help let local printf pwd read readonly
return set shift test times trap true type ulimit umask unalias
unset wait [ [[ash awk basename blockdev cat chmod chroot chvt
clear cmp cp cut deallocvt df dnsdomainname du dumpkmap echo
egrep env expr false fbset fdflush fgrep find grep gunzip gzip
hostname ifconfig ip kill in loadfont loadkmap is mkdir mkfifo
mknod mkswap mktemp modinfo more mount mv openvt pidof printf
ps pwd readlink reset rm rmdir sed seq setkeycodes sh sleep sort
stat static-sh stty switch_root sync tail tee test touch tr true
tty umount uname uniq wc wget which yes zcat
In case you have not noticed by now I am new to this so what these commands mean is lost on me and you are probably shaking your heads. I am wondering what my options are.
Other possibly relevant info - running windows 10 and Ubuntu 12.04 on the same computer. Windows 10 driving me insane hence the drift towards Ubuntu (have had Ubuntu loaded on for a couple of years).
Is it possible to
a) recover the computer and recommence the upgrade.
b) if not will I need to reinstall the original 12.04 and recommence the upgrade process again? (I am blowed if I know where the bootable usb is)
c) assuming this is not possible, what are my options?
Regards
Dave
I am hoping you can help me. I have searched the forums for related content but have not found a similar problem hence this post. I was upgrading from 12.04 to 14.04. everything was going well and it had just finished downloading all the packages and had just started the process of removing the obsolete software. At this point I really needed to go to sleep (at this point it was 2.30am) and thought that I might be able to suspend the computer and then recommence in the morning. When I did log back into the computer it came up with a 'restart the computer' option. I pressed cancel as I thought that I would be able to continue with the process. Unfortunately not. when I went to restart the computer the logging off part of the menu came up with square symbols and no option to shutdown so did a forced shutdown.
On booting the computer I get the following
mount: mounting /dev /loop0 on /root failed:Iinvalid argument
mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: no such file or directory
mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: no such file or directory
mount: mounting /proc on root/proc/ 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 1:1.21.0-1ubuntu1) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
At the command line (intramfs) when you type 'help' it comes up with the following
. : [alias break cd chdir command continue echo eval exec exit
export falst getopts hash help let local printf pwd read readonly
return set shift test times trap true type ulimit umask unalias
unset wait [ [[ash awk basename blockdev cat chmod chroot chvt
clear cmp cp cut deallocvt df dnsdomainname du dumpkmap echo
egrep env expr false fbset fdflush fgrep find grep gunzip gzip
hostname ifconfig ip kill in loadfont loadkmap is mkdir mkfifo
mknod mkswap mktemp modinfo more mount mv openvt pidof printf
ps pwd readlink reset rm rmdir sed seq setkeycodes sh sleep sort
stat static-sh stty switch_root sync tail tee test touch tr true
tty umount uname uniq wc wget which yes zcat
In case you have not noticed by now I am new to this so what these commands mean is lost on me and you are probably shaking your heads. I am wondering what my options are.
Other possibly relevant info - running windows 10 and Ubuntu 12.04 on the same computer. Windows 10 driving me insane hence the drift towards Ubuntu (have had Ubuntu loaded on for a couple of years).
Is it possible to
a) recover the computer and recommence the upgrade.
b) if not will I need to reinstall the original 12.04 and recommence the upgrade process again? (I am blowed if I know where the bootable usb is)
c) assuming this is not possible, what are my options?
Regards
Dave