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Mohit Kurani
Asked: 2018-04-01 08:37:42 +0800 CST

Busybox initramfs again and again

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I have ubuntu 16.04 installed.. whenever I boot the system and try to run ubuntu, busy box pops up. I do a manual check ---fsck -yf /dev/sda12--- and then reboot.. now the ubuntu boots properly but then after few minutes i am not able to save/write anything on ubuntu(says the the disk is read only) nor can i open my other partitions which i was able to access few minutes ago. I again restart my system and the same busybox appears. The cycle goes on and on. What should i do.. is my hard drive completely corrupted?

boot initramfs busybox

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Lets first check your file system for errors.

    For Ubuntu 17.10 or older...

    • boot to the GRUB menu
    • choose Advanced Options
    • choose Recovery mode
    • choose Root access
    • at the # prompt, type sudo fsck -f /
    • repeat the fsck command if there were errors
    • type reboot

    For Ubuntu 18.04 or newer... (or if the above steps don't work for you)...

    • boot to a Ubuntu Live DVD/USB in “Try Ubuntu” mode
    • open a terminal window by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T
    • type sudo fdisk -l
    • identify the /dev/sdXX device name for your "Linux Filesystem"
    • type sudo fsck -f /dev/sdXX, replacing sdXX with the number you found earlier
    • repeat the fsck command if there were errors
    • type reboot
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  2. first, run the command

    blkid

    then check the number of partitions

    it will look like

    /dev/numve2: UUID="kksgasjhgdjh36876" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="bdmdmd7-iuuyuy-89jlh" /dev/numve4: UUID="kksgasjhgdjh36876" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="bjjlo-iuuyuy-89jlh"

    now just run the command for all partitions:

    fsck /dev/numve2 -y
fsck /dev/numve4 -y

    after done for all partition just run :

    reboot

    and choose ubuntu it will work!!

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