Booting into Busybox shell

[David Suna]

  On 18/10/2010 3:57 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 03:52:20PM +0200, David Suna wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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.
>
How can I figure out what the reason is?  Or can I just safely ignore it.
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David Suna
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