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Title: BusyBox v1.22.1
Post by: floaterball on January 13, 2017, 09:45:10 PM

My WattOS 10 isn't loading. I had installed it on my laptop, and now I get the following message when trying to turn on ...
BusyBox v1.22.1 (Ubuntu 1:1.22.0-0-155ubuntu1) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
(initramfs) _
So now what? I can follow commands, but that is it. I don't know much about any of this.
I had installed WattOS 10 from a disk (ISO) and that is the extent of my knowledge.
Thanks for anyone's help

Title: Re: BusyBox v1.22.1
Post by: cheiron on January 14, 2017, 07:28:18 AM

Hi floaterball


This is not unheard of and has been a problem for a while with ubuntu.


I have had a look on some forums and it looks like a fix is here http://askubuntu.com/questions/137655/boot-drops-to-a-initramfs-prompts-busybox (http://askubuntu.com/questions/137655/boot-drops-to-a-initramfs-prompts-busybox)


I Cant vouch for it working.. but it is a start unless Blaze or Biffster knows otherwise!

Title: Re: BusyBox v1.22.1
Post by: blaze on January 14, 2017, 09:39:13 AM

Hi floaterball, and welocme to wattOS forums. :)

Great find cheiron. If I were you floaterball, I would give it a try! I am not very familiar with initramfs, but it looked ok and what choice do you have other than to give it a go. Plus, there are comments from peopIe there that said that they have had success with solving their problems. I hope you have a backup of important stuff.

Do you have any clue about what could have caused this situation floaterball? Do you remember what you did just prior to when this happened?

Title: Re: BusyBox v1.22.1
Post by: floaterball on January 14, 2017, 06:12:06 PM

Thanks for your help, but it was unsuccessful.
Whenever I pushed 'enter', it would come up blank.
Tried different sda1 to sda6, and nothing showed.
Rrrrr ...

Title: Re: BusyBox v1.22.1
Post by: blaze on January 16, 2017, 09:11:52 PM

Well... ??? I don`t know really. Start from scratch? Did the live session of R10 work well? For how long did you have it installed before it went belly up? What kind of laptop is it? Have you tried any other Linux distro on the laptop, and if yes, how did that work out? Did you install from cd or usb? In case of usb, how did you transfer the iso to it?

Have you considered trying Super Grub2? Great tool when things go ;D

http://www.supergrubdisk.org/

Title: Re: BusyBox v1.22.1
Post by: leenie on January 22, 2017, 02:15:41 PM

Hi floaterball,
This has saved my behinie many times: https://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair-cd/home/Home/

Be sure to get the version appropriate for your architecture.