[dvlug] help

[Grant Bowman]

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Jonathan Hawthorne <jbhswim2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all I am part of the newsletter, but haven't been to a meeting yet. I had
> a strange error message when I booted up 10.04 Ubuntu today.
> Here it is:
> mount: mounting /dev/disk/by-uuid/0e45b1cf-8b2a-45bb-9c12-9dd2588dfcd6 on
> /root
> failed: Invalid argument
> mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: No such file or directory
> mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory
> mount: mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: No such file or directory
> Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init.
> No init found. Try passing init= bootarg.
> Busy Box v1.13.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.13.3-1ubuntu11) built-in shell (ash)
> Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
> (initramfs)
>
> END:::::
> Thanks, i would rather not do a fresh install, so I can keep all of my
> media. Thanks, Jonathan

Hi Jonathan,

Looks to me like maybe / got changed to /root on your system in
/etc/fstab.  Assuming nothing else is wrong this should be fairly
simple to fix.  Try that change and let us know more or bring it with
you on Friday.

Grant