Comments on: Wubi Error: Busybox and initramfs

By: Ollie

Ollie — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:50:32 +0000

chkdsk -r windows, restart and then boot into Ubuntu, that should fix it.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:48:53 +0000

Hi - heeeelp please

I can’t find anything that works on the internet and I’m not used to this system yet.

I’m also getting the busybox message (no error message above it about why the boot failed). I can’t run chkdsk in initrams either, and my computer won’t boot from it’s hard drive (which is why I use the Live CD) and I know the CD works, because I’t been running several times before. I just can’t get out of initrams (tried esc, writing quit and exit, using ctrl+c .. but noting happes except the Busybox text reappearing.

- Any ideas?

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:46:17 +0000

This is a little late, but I just wanted to say that your post saved my sanity.

Worked perfectly after multiple hours of fiddling.

Thanks!

By: dchenning

dchenning — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:41:11 +0000

Hi, this did indeed explain why I kept having this problem… thanks ever so much!

By: Steve Wall

Steve Wall — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:35:00 +0000

Hmmm. I performed the pure windows shutdown per above, then ubuntu fired up as usual. I didn’t have to change “default 0″ to “default 2″ in menu.lst (to use the -16 kernel vs -17 kernel as other posts have indicated). Thanks a bunch. This was easier than all the other posts indicate…..

By: phenics

phenics — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:34:10 +0000

Great, That’s the reason, thanks for your solution!

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By: JosephMcLaughlin

JosephMcLaughlin — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:38:26 +0000

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

By: john

john — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:01:44 +0000

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.

By: Danish989

Danish989 — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:05:17 +0000

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.