Booting into Busybox shell

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 03:52:20PM +0200, David Suna wrote:
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> I have an Ubuntu 8.04 system that was not shut down cleanly (because of  
> a power outage) and when I rebooted it it came up into a Busybox shell.   
> I simply rebooted again and it came up fine.
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> What does this mean?  Does it indicate some problem that I should deal with?

The busybox shell is in the initramfs. It means that it has failed to
load the root filesystem for whatever reason.

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