Cannot Boot: “No Init Found. Try Passing Init=Bootarg” Standard Fix Not Working
I'm Getting the Booting Error as per Cannot Boot: "No Init Found. Try Passing Init=Bootarg" I'm Run Commands in a liveCD Terminal Ubuntu@Ubuntu: ~$ Sudo Fdisk...
I'm getting the booting error as per Cannot boot: "No init found. Try passing init=bootarg"
I'm run commands in a liveCD terminal
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00638cbf
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 63 80324 40131 de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 * 30801920 241535341 105366711 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 241537022 312580095 35521537 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 241537024 309569535 34016256 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 309571584 312580095 1504256 82 Linux swap / Solaris
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fsck -y /dev/sda1
fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
fsck.fat 3.0.26 (2014-03-07)
/dev/sda1: 82 files, 4367/20017 clusters
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fsck -y /dev/sda2
fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
fsck: fsck.ntfs: not found
fsck: error 2 while executing fsck.ntfs for /dev/sda2
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fsck -y /dev/sda3
fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
e2fsck 1.42.9 (4-Feb-2014)
fsck.ext2: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/sda3
Could this be a zero-length partition?
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fsck -y /dev/sda4
fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
e2fsck 1.42.9 (4-Feb-2014)
fsck.ext2: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sda4
Possibly non-existent device?
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fsck -y /dev/sda5
fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
e2fsck 1.42.9 (4-Feb-2014)
/dev/sda5: clean, 160379/2129920 files, 1067688/8504064 blocks
I got the solution from . When I reboot I get the same error. One thing I can think of is that I created a new liveCD, maybe it needs to be the correct version?
What to do/ what more info do you need?
1 Answer
This bug sounds like a core problem with Ubuntu. It appears that your init file is missing or corrupt. There are two ways to solve this problem:
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Option 1
You can simply re-install Ubuntu. This is the simplest and most reliable method of solving this problem. It also always works.
If you want to save your data, use a LiveCD in "Trial" mode and copy all important stuff to a USB drive. You can then install directly from the drive.
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