10.04 drops to '(initramfs)' prompt on boot

Posted by David Yenor on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by David Yenor
Published on 2012-10-27T01:07:34Z Indexed on 2012/10/27 5:17 UTC
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I'm not sure what to do to solve the problem, I received this error upon boot.

mount: mounting /dev/disk/by-uuid/f60e3ce2-0237-45bb-bf07-581d0090cbc7 on /root
failed: Invalid argument
mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: No such file or directory
mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory
mount: mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: No such file or directory
Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init.
No init found. Try passing init= bootarg.

BusyBox v1.13.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.13.3-1ubuntu11) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

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