no init found, Try passing init=bootarg and then some

[Meltey]

Hello, I have the same problem with "try passing init=bootarg".
I managed to fix it by booting into liveUSB and using e2fsck command but the problem always appear a few days later. I really dont know why this is happening and I dont want to use liveUSB every second day...could someone help me please?

[Meltey]

just hit the F2 or F12 button (Boot setup or something like that) ,choose BOOT options and choose CD or USB as 1st boot priority

[pyrial]

So I just resolved that crappy problem and heres what I did:

First I installed ubuntu on a seperate hard drive and ran that as primary hard drive. then I opened terminal and entered:

sudo fdisk -l

The errored hard drive was sdb1. I then entered:

sudo fsck /dev/sdb1

There were questions i answered yes to then booted normally after it finished. everything was normal exccept I have to choose a different version of ubuntu at startup. I havent had any problems so far but this was just an hour ago. Good luck and hope this helps.

[alyaba]

Any other fixes that dont require a second hard drive?

[gemrico]

i to have gotten mount: mounting/devon/root/dev failed:no such file or directory then TARGET filesystem doesnt have requested /sbin/init
Busybox v1.15.3 (ubuntu 1:1.15.3-1ubuntu5) built-in shell (ash) enter help for a list of commands
initramfs


PLEASE HELP ME WHAT DO I DO ITS DRIVING ME CRAZY I COMMUNICATEWITH MY PARENTS THREW SKYPE MY FATHER IS ILL SO IF SOMEOME COULD PLEASE HELP ME THANK YOU

[deadlytackler]

Same No init found problem, using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, tried
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo e2fsck -C0 -p -f -v /dev/sda1

417 inodes used (0.86%)
1 non-contiguous file (0.2%)
0 non-contiguous directories (0.0%)
# of inodes with ind/dind/tind blocks: 0/0/0
Extent depth histogram: 407
73815 blocks used (37.94%)
0 bad blocks
0 large files

401 regular files
7 directories
0 character device files
0 block device files
0 fifos
0 links
0 symbolic links (0 fast symbolic links)
0 sockets
--------
408 files
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo e2fsck -C0 -p -f -v /dev/sda3
e2fsck: Device or resource busy while trying to open /dev/sda3
Filesystem mounted or opened exclusively by another program?
I suppose problem is with sda3, what is the solution? because of this sda3 even boot_info_script is not working it hangs when it starts working on sda3.

[timstewart]

Today I moved a computer across a desk and changed the monitor. On boot I got the 'no init found' etc. DryChilli's post sorted my encrypted volume error out. BTW fs is ext4 as I have seen posted elsewhere.

Thanks a lot. Top man.

Tim.

Hi!

I had the problem too, but it was my fault. My computer hung, so I switched it off. Afterwards I got this error.

To fix it is easy. Just boot from a USB-stick or CD and do fsck.

Some instructions:

List your partitions:

 ls /dev/sd*

If you haven't got an encrypted disk just do (where sda5 is the corrupted partition):

fsck /dev/sda5

If you are using an encrypted hard-disk (i do) do

sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda5 something

where sda5 is the encrypted partition and someting is the name under which you will find the partition (/dev/mapper/something).

The install Lvm and look for volumes :

sudo apt-get install lvm2
sudo pvscan
sudo vgscan

The last command should list the at least one volume-group
Enable it or the ones you're interested in

sudo vgchange -a y groupname

Now list the logical volumens

sudo lvscan

Your drive you're interested in should now appear under /dev/mapper

do a fsck

sudo fsck /dev/mapper/logical-volume

Lots of errors! Off course you want to have them all fixed. REBOOT!
This worked for me!

Best regards!

[Gemba]

This post led me to the answer:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...05&postcount=2

I ran a live CD, opened terminal, and typed in "sudo fsck /dev/sda7" (where my ubuntu partition was located)

Thanks so much for this! Worked a treat.