On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 9:12 PM, Denis Heidtmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> Afew days ago I started my Ubuntu 14.04 desktop system only to be presented > with "Busybox V1.21.1 (ubuntu 1:1.21.0 1ubuntu1) > builtin shell (ash) > initramfs" > > Subsequent startings have been norma. > > Does this mean an intermittent hardware failure ? > > There are a lot of things it could mean. Could be hardware or software. Are you positive you didn't have any removable media connected at the time which it may have attempted to boot from? Busybox is commonly found on devices with limited resources as a sort of basic operating environment. It may be used as a failsafe if the primary Ubuntu system is unable to boot, though I haven't seen that myself. -wes _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
