04-14-2019, 08:42 AM
One of my youth contacted me as when he started up the old laptop he is using running LL 3.8 it came up with this message this morning:
BusyBox v1.22 (Ubuntu 1:1.22.0-15ubuntu1) built-in shell (---) 3 letters here that I can read
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
(initramfs) _
I googled and found this link which worked GREAT and the youth is back up and running (although I have suggested it save anything of importance to his USB stix before shutting down the laptop EACH time he uses it):
https://www.proposedsolution.com/solutio...fs-prompt/
My questions are -
1) Why did this occur?
2) What is initramfs?
3) And what does it say about this laptop..? Is the HDD or something on it's way out?
BusyBox v1.22 (Ubuntu 1:1.22.0-15ubuntu1) built-in shell (---) 3 letters here that I can read
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
(initramfs) _
I googled and found this link which worked GREAT and the youth is back up and running (although I have suggested it save anything of importance to his USB stix before shutting down the laptop EACH time he uses it):
https://www.proposedsolution.com/solutio...fs-prompt/
My questions are -
1) Why did this occur?
2) What is initramfs?
3) And what does it say about this laptop..? Is the HDD or something on it's way out?