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Hardware - Support => Start up and Shutdown => Topic started by: LarryB1607 on October 27, 2023, 12:23:08 PM
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Sorry if posting in the wrong spot. Received some updates Wed and now I cannot get into my system. Even an older package does not work as well as a recovery one which goes on forever. Typing in help brings up a long line of cryptic to mestuff that I cannot copy to post. Using LLOS 4.8??? I have an old backup, but not sure how to get to it and it would be way to old anyway. I will run Gparted and find out the drive. I have a system and a user partition. If I need to reinstall, will my user partition remain usable? This happened once before from an update, but I was able to use an older package , but not this time. thanks for any help
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Don't know if the information in this link will be relevant.
https://ostechnix.com/how-to-fix-busybox-initramfs-error-on-ubuntu/
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Saw that page already. The help command is not giving me that response. I plan to run fsck nayway once I figure out the partition name. I need something that will read ext-4 partitions in Windows. Downloaded the newest versionof Gparted live and hope that works better than the older version I have.
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The only exe file I can find is a 32bit and a 64 bit. The 64 bit file does not open anything.
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Not sure what exe file you are referring to.
According to the instructions in the link, this might work from the Busybox (initramfs) prompt.
You can use cat /proc/partitions or blkid or lsblk commands to get your Linux partition details in Busybox
Good luck.
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Found the partition name with another utility and ran fsck and said Y to everything and it seemed to fix things.