Help: can't no more boot

[Carl Friis-Hansen]

On Fri, October 23, 2009 15:00, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> hi everybody,
> I had since several days USB error messages (error -110), but all seemed
> to work normally. This morning, I got a lot of these messages, and
> "lsusb" froze my terminal window. I decided to reboot, and I'm now
> stuck at boot, with messages:
>      Gave up waiting for boot device
>      ...
>      UUID_of_device   does not exist
>
>      and I get a busybox prompt: then, I see that  /proc/modules is empty
>
>      Booting from a USB stick, I mounted the partition without any
>      problem, and checked that the UUID found in /dev/disk/by_uuid
> corresponds
>      to the one in menu.lst (anyway, replacing the UUID by /dev/sda2 gave
>      the same result: "/dev/sda2 does not exist")
>
>      How can this happen?
>
>      PS: my Ubuntu version is Intrepid.
>
> --
> Pierre Frenkiel

Would it be an idea to boot on the stick and the make fschk of sda2?

It smells to me like something has gone berserk in the file system.

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