Greetings of the day You may have activated the encryption service from your system. If you disable this. It won't be appear. <div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 4, 2015 7:41 AM, "Peter" <<a href="mailto:petergoggin@bigpond.com">petergoggin@bigpond.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I have searched the internet and while other people have had the same problem, I do not see how I can apply their solutions to my machine. (probably because I do not know enough about Ubuntu. My version is 14.04 If I reinstall Ubuntu using the same passwords as in the original installation will my existing home directory and its contents be overwritten? I need to get the system going and retain the data. The last good backup is May 19th. The latter backups were on an external disk which has failed Regards Peter Goggin On 03/09/15 22:42, Peter wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> I have ubuntu installed on an Lenovo x61s laptop. Yesterday the systembooted and worked without any proble. Today it boots as far as asking for the encryption password. It then comesup with BusyBox v1.21.1 {Ubuntu 1:1.21.0-1ubuntu1)built - in shelol (as) enter help for list of built in commands (initramfs) What does this mean and how can I get the system to complete booting? Regards Peter Goggin </blockquote> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>