What to do when Ubuntu boots into Busybox CLI?

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Tue Mar 11 16:18:24 UTC 2008


On 11/03/2008, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09/03/2008, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > What should one do when booting Ubuntu gets the Busybox CLI screen?
>
> Are you sure it's Busybox and not a vanilla Bash shell?

It clearly says Busybox. I've never heard of busybox before this incident.

>  >  I tried adding the parameter "ircpoll" to the kernel
>  >  line in grub, but this did not help.
>
>
> It is "irqpoll" not "ircpoll".

I did mean irqpoll. Freud would have something wise to say about that
slip, I'm sure.

Dotan Cohen

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