Won't boot to X, booting into BusyBox

**gnulnx** · January 21st, 2010

Hey everyone.

My system was hanging so I gave it a reboot. After coming back up, the system is booting into BusyBox. I have tried booting into the Ubuntu LiveCD and then mounting my / in /mnt and my /boot in /mnt/boot and then doing a grub-install. This doesn't seem to have fixed my issue. I have also tried booting to the second drive in my raid 1 array.

Here is what I see on my screen:

Code:

mount: mounting /dev/disk/by-uuid/a4aad87c-c45b-4480-84fa-e0290f5a7853 on /root
failed: Invalid argument
mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory
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
Targeet filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init.
No init found.   Try passing init= bootarg

BusyBox v1.13.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.13.3-1ubuntu7) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

(initramfs)

I am running Ubuntu 9.10 64bit w/ 2 disks in raid 1. My partition table is like:

Code:

/dev/sda1 /boot   raid autodetect   ext4
/dev/sda2    raid autodetect    swap
/dev/sda3 /root    raid autodetect    ext4
/dev/sda4 extendd
/dev/sda5 /home/user/.VirtualBox    raid autodetect    xfs
/dev/sda6 /home    raid autodetect ext4

If you need any more info, please ask. Thanks!

**gnulnx** · January 21st, 2010

I have since tried repairing grub a different way: booting to the livecd, mounting /dev/sda1 (my boot partition) to /boot, and then doing gnome-install /dev/sda, the output of which is

Code:

Installation finished. No error reported.
This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map.
Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect,
fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'.

(hd0)   /dev/sda
(hd1)   /dev/sdb

And I have still the same behavior: booting into busybox. Any other ideas?

**gnulnx** · January 22nd, 2010

Bump. If I can provide any more info, please let me know.

**gnulnx** · January 25th, 2010

halp

**sithlordkyle** · January 26th, 2010

i had this problem once with 9.04 and, while this may not sound great, i only solved it by reinstalling. hopefully someone with better knowledge than i comes along soon!

**gnulnx** · January 27th, 2010

I did create a separate partition for /home, so reinstalling should be easy. Easy, but hopefully unnecessary!

**kd5dbl** · February 26th, 2010

While I know this doesn't help one bit but...

I got the exact same thing this morning... Box had been up and running for about 2 weeks and then just locked up. Tried every way I knew to get in to it and finally had to power cycle it.

I'm getting the exact same... did you ever come up with a solution? Or did you just rebuild it?