fooDigi Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 getting an error message when trying to boot to ubuntu... has been working fine until i needed to reboot, had uptime of nearly a year... hard drive failure??? here are the errors... thanks for any insight... Starting up ... Loading, please wait... /scripts/init-top/brltty: 19: grep: not found FATAL: Error inserting capability (/lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/kernel/security/capability.ko): Invalid argument Gave up waiting for the root device. Common problems: - Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline) - Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?) - Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?) - Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev) ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/32786yha-long-id-blah does not exist. Dropping to a shell! (initramfs) _ Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/183937-ubuntu-boot-error/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
fooDigi Posted December 4, 2009 Author Share Posted December 4, 2009 well... booted knoppix and am able to read most things from the hard drive so far... Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/183937-ubuntu-boot-error/#findComment-971001 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fooDigi Posted December 4, 2009 Author Share Posted December 4, 2009 well... booted knoppix and am able to read most things from the hard drive so far... SOLVED... had to replace the /boot/initrd.img... file with a backup that happened to be there... and, that was it... Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/183937-ubuntu-boot-error/#findComment-971014 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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