[Cialug] Ubuntu 10.04 boot issue

[Tom Sellers]

No external drives are attached nor were attached when I tried to reboot this machine.  Sorry!  Is that good or bad?



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 From: Nathan C. Smith <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com>
To: 'Central Iowa Linux Users Group' <cialug at cialug.org> 
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Ubuntu 10.04 boot issue
 
Any chance you left external storage, a drive, or a flash drive plugged in?  

-Nate



-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Tom Sellers
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 3:51 PM
To: Linux User Group Iowa
Subject: [Cialug] Ubuntu 10.04 boot issue

Today for some unknown reason I found my machine powered down.  I usually leave it on all the time.  


When I attempted to boot it up I encountered a screen I have not seen before.  Keep in mind that I am not a seasoned Linux user.

When the machine boots it ends the boot process at a black screen with a prompt of "initramfs" and tells me to type help for a list of commands.  When I do that I get a large string of commands all run together which is several lines long.  


How serious is my problem?  Can I recover from this?

If I do a ls command it appears that the file structure is still there although I am not positive that there is not a directory that might be missing.  

Can anyone give me some suggestions on how to proceed?

Thanks!
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