What to do when Ubuntu boots into Busybox CLI?

[Gerald Dachs]

Quoting Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com>:

> On 10/03/2008, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
>>
>> That would be "/var/log", but I think it is very unlikely that you find
>>  any logs at all. AFAIK the filesystems are not yet mounted when you fall
>>  into the busy box.
>
> Actually, it seems that the filesystem is mounted, as I can browse it.
> But there was no /var/l<tab> directories at all.

Nonsense, you can browse _a_ filesystem, not _the_ filesystem on your  
harddisk.
You are browsing a filesystem in a ramdisk, that was already setup by grub
before the kernel started. This filesystem is used temporary by the kernel
for loading device drivers that are necessary to access the harddisk and
the filesystem you have choosen during install. After the root filesystem
on the harddisk got mounted, this temporary filesystem disappears,
but your root filesystem didn't get mounted for some reason.

Gerald

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