Can't boot notebook at all anymore

[Amichai Rotman]

Try following this guide to repair the boot process:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/226061/how-to-install-the-boot-repair-tool-in-an-ubuntu-live-disc

Amichai.

2017-06-24 9:53 GMT+03:00 MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com>:

> Before it was just a problem with the SSD.  Now the notebook refuses
> to boot at all.
>
> It keeps coming up in busybox, but the more command doesn't wokr, or
> pieps don;t, so i can't peer through dmesg to see what's wrong.
>
> This is an ASUS N75SF that was running Xubuntu 16,04 just fine until
> this weekend.  (Last weekend it worked perfectly.  I even watched a
> couple of movies on it,  Now it has gone completely defective.)
>
> It was saying it couldn't find /sbin/init, and the best advice I could
> find was to reinstall the OS, so I did that.
>
> Now it comes up in busybox and there do not appear to be any errors at all.
>
> Is it possible the motherboard just went wacko?
>
> I ran the disk test and everything seemed to be fine.  I was able to
> mount the drive from a live CD boot, chroot and update-grub, and still
> no boot.
>
> After the reinstall, still no boot.
>
> It runs just fine from the live CD (actually a USB3 flash drive).
>
> The only change I can think of that might have impacted this was I
> changed the memory from 8GB to 16GB.   The last time I ran the memory
> test, it passed.
>
> I really don't want to have to get another laptop and write off this
> one - it already cost me close to $500 I can't really afford to throw
> away, and don't want to.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Feeling VSF.
>
> MR
>
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