What to do when Ubuntu boots into Busybox CLI?

[Liam Proven]

On 11/03/2008, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

It's a very small all-in-one shell replacement that also includes a
large number of what are normally external commands. It's often used
in embedded Linux and distros intended to boot from a single floppy
and things like that: very resource-constrained installations, in
other words. I had no idea the Ubuntu install used it, though!

>  >  >  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.

:¬) Just checking. I'm sure that "ircpoll" wouldn't help very much.

Just out of interest, I've found that on at least one recalcitrant
system, "acpi=force" worked better than "acpi=off" or "noacpi".
Compelling the kernel to enable it on an elderly BIOS, rather than
forcing it to be disabled, got Ubuntu 7.04 to at least boot.

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