Wubi Error: Busybox and initramfs
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!
Danish989 said,
Wrote on May 13, 2008 @ 10:05 am
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.
john said,
Wrote on June 10, 2008 @ 9:01 pm
guess what? its not that ur wrong, it goes away with time, i boot normally every time, shut down normally, and i still got it, you have to wait maybe 24-48 hours it is temporary and i am 90% it will not come back. This is an unknown bug.
JosephMcLaughlin said,
Wrote on July 1, 2008 @ 11:38 pm
I’m sorry to hear this approach didn’t work for some of you. I have also had several positive comments about this solution reporting that this solves the problem. I think I agree with you John: this is an unknown bug that will hopefully be fixed in the next edition of the wubi installer. However, as this solution does work some of the time, I recommend you give it a try.
JosephMcLaughlin