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Old 04-21-2017, 02:59 AM   #1
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Boot drops to a (initramfs) prompts/busybox

how to fix this issue? using ubuntu 12.04 LTS x64. i tried to connect bootable usb but no luck.


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Old 04-21-2017, 03:39 AM   #2
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Looks like a bad disk.
 
Old 04-21-2017, 03:42 AM   #3
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any solution?
 
Old 04-21-2017, 04:34 AM   #4
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Get a new one.
 
Old 04-21-2017, 05:13 AM   #5
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Perhaps you should first try a fsck on the root partition. Might save some bucks and some data.
 
Old 04-21-2017, 01:23 PM   #6
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Ext4fs - error loading journal

Looks like a corrupted file system, try running a check on that (sda1) file system, (as suggested by syg00).
 
  


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