Geoff_Lane
June 19th, 2020, 11:41 AM
Folks,
My main system is Ubuntu 18:04 but I experiment with other distros on an external drive.
On this drive I have Debian, Arch and RaspberryPi for PC all booting fine via a custom GRUB entry on my internal drive.
A recent attempt to install Ubuntu-mate on the external drive has given me a problem, installation from a live image appeared to go fine though seemed to take ages, on booting I always end up with a busybox prompt.
The file system seems to be there, vmlinuz and initrd.img etc. tried manually booting from GRUB command line but always busybox. I've looked in the /var/log folder of the ubuntu-mate file system but can see no syslog.
I have tried a reinstall but same result.
The live image works fine and the sha256sum checked out OK
Anyone any idea what I could check to resolve this?
Geoff
My main system is Ubuntu 18:04 but I experiment with other distros on an external drive.
On this drive I have Debian, Arch and RaspberryPi for PC all booting fine via a custom GRUB entry on my internal drive.
A recent attempt to install Ubuntu-mate on the external drive has given me a problem, installation from a live image appeared to go fine though seemed to take ages, on booting I always end up with a busybox prompt.
The file system seems to be there, vmlinuz and initrd.img etc. tried manually booting from GRUB command line but always busybox. I've looked in the /var/log folder of the ubuntu-mate file system but can see no syslog.
I have tried a reinstall but same result.
The live image works fine and the sha256sum checked out OK
Anyone any idea what I could check to resolve this?
Geoff