Wubi Error: Busybox and initramfs
ATTENTION: This post is out of date, for the more recent solution/information go to this post.
After installing Ubuntu using Wubi, everything worked fine for a few days. After a few days I booted up and was greeted with a terminal-like screen called a BusyBox. After scouring the ubuntu forums and finding several posts explaining how to read the error logs and what-not. All of these “solutions” did not help.
Do I have a solution?
Yes. Boot up into windows and shut down normally. DO NOT HARD RESET! (that’s what’s causing the problem) After windows shuts down, attempt to boot back into ubuntu, it should work this time.
The reason I think it wasn’t working was because when you hard reset your computer you cut all power, therefore disallowing linux to access it’s virtual disk when you start up. If i’m wrong on anything I’ve said, please comment and tell me. Also, if this works for anybody, I’d love to find out. Don’t be afraid to comment!
That does fix it for a lot of people, a faulty reset or shutdown will render an ubuntu installed using wubi un-bootable. The solution then is to either do as you said, or run Chkdsk /r on all the hard disks.
Although, I have an ever bigger problem, since both those methods aren’t doing it and I’m still stuck at busybox, so my advice: Don’t install ubuntu using Wubi.
Hmmm. I performed the pure windows shutdown per above, then ubuntu fired up as usual. I didn’t have to change “default 0” to “default 2” in menu.lst (to use the -16 kernel vs -17 kernel as other posts have indicated). Thanks a bunch. This was easier than all the other posts indicate…..
Hi, this did indeed explain why I kept having this problem… thanks ever so much!
This is a little late, but I just wanted to say that your post saved my sanity.
Worked perfectly after multiple hours of fiddling.
Thanks! š
Hi – heeeelp please :p
I can’t find anything that works on the internet š¦ and I’m not used to this system yet.
I’m also getting the busybox message (no error message above it about why the boot failed). I can’t run chkdsk in initrams either, and my computer won’t boot from it’s hard drive (which is why I use the Live CD) and I know the CD works, because I’t been running several times before. I just can’t get out of initrams (tried esc, writing quit and exit, using ctrl+c .. but noting happes except the Busybox text reappearing.
– Any ideas?
chkdsk -r windows, restart and then boot into Ubuntu, that should fix it.
Great, That’s the reason, thanks for your solution!
That appove did not fix my problem, i installed ubuntu 8:10 with wibu, and keep reciveing busibox error, some1 plz help
Your solution worked for me.
Thanks..