Monday, July 9, 2012

Ubuntu 10.04, 12.04 crash and drops to BusyBox shell initramfs prompt

My ubuntu 10.10 Lucid Lynx suddenly stopped working on some day. It was dropping me to the command prompt showing Ubuntu busy Box. initramfs.

After Googling i found that it is problem with the grub and simply reinstalling the grub could solve your problem instantly.

Here are the steps to re-install your grub and get your crashed linux system up.

1> Boot your system with the any Linux distribution cd-dvd (i use fedora 11) to re-install the grub.

2>  Go to option  "Choose rescue existing system"

3> Now execute following commands

#chroot /mnt/sysimage
#grub-install /dev/sda

Now reboot the system  and you will find that your system is running perfectly fine.







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