If you try and boot Ubuntu and get this error,
Killed
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
(and then something about initramfs)
I think you are in a big trouble. But don’t worry, you can fix it easily. Follow our step by step guide to get rid of this headache. First of all download required files and burn a live CD/DVD or USB stick to boot your system and then download boot info script to get information about your drive and finally run the “e2fsck” command.
Download Required Files:
– Download ubuntu for booting your system
– Download unetbootin to create a bootable pendrive
– Download boot info script
Or, you can learn here how to create bootable USB stick on different platforms:
– Ubuntu
– Windows
– Mac OSX
If you do manage to get it booted, please do the following so we can get a better idea of what is going on. Once the desktop loads come back here and do the following:
1. Download the boot info script from here which is in a zipped file.
2. Once downloaded, unzip the contents by using right-click Extract here.
3. Open the extracted folder and copy the script to the desktop.
4. Open a terminal and run the following command.
1 2 3 | $ sudo bash ~/Desktop/bootinfoscript |
RESULT:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 | Boot Info Script 0.61 [1 April 2012] "gawk" could not be found, using "busybox awk" instead. This may lead to unreliable results. Identifying MBRs... Computing Partition Table of /dev/sda... Computing Partition Table of /dev/sdb... Searching sda1 for information... Searching sda2 for information... Searching sda5 for information... Searching sdb1 for information... Finished. The results are in the file "RESULTS.txt" located in "/home/ubuntu/Desktop/". |
Open your “RESULTS.txt” file and check for errors. you will get a similar file like what i got here.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 | Boot Info Script 0.60 from 17 May 2011 ============================= Boot Info Summary: =============================== => Grub2 (v1.97-1.98) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks at sector 1 of the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this location and looks in partition 1 for /boot/grub. => Syslinux MBR (3.61-4.03) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb. sda1: __________________________________________________________________________ File system: ext4 Boot sector type: - Boot sector info: Mounting failed: mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext4' sda2: __________________________________________________________________________ File system: Extended Partition Boot sector type: - Boot sector info: sda5: __________________________________________________________________________ File system: swap Boot sector type: - Boot sector info: sdb1: __________________________________________________________________________ File system: vfat Boot sector type: SYSLINUX 3.71 2008-07-31 Boot sector info: Syslinux looks at sector 540800 of /dev/sdb1 for its second stage. No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block. Operating System: Boot files: /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg /boot/syslinux/ldlinux.sys sdb2: __________________________________________________________________________ File system: Extended Partition Boot sector type: - Boot sector info: sdb5: __________________________________________________________________________ File system: swap Boot sector type: - Boot sector info: sdh: ___________________________________________________________________________ File system: vfat Boot sector type: FAT16 Boot sector info: According to the info in the boot sector, sdh has 1415168 sectors.. But according to the info from the partition table, it has 31506432 sectors. Operating System: Boot files: ============================ Drive/Partition Info: ============================= Drive: sda _____________________________________________________________________ Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00084d8b Partition Boot Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors Id System /dev/sda1 * 2,048 973,848,575 973,846,528 83 Linux /dev/sda2 973,850,622 976,773,119 2,922,498 5 Extended /dev/sda5 973,850,624 976,773,119 2,922,496 82 Linux swap / Solaris Drive: sdb _____________________________________________________________________ Disk /dev/sdb: 4063 MB, 4063232000 bytes 125 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1024 cylinders, total 7936000 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000e29e1 Partition Boot Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors Id System /dev/sdb1 * 2,048 7,473,151 7,471,104 b W95 FAT32 /dev/sdb2 7,475,198 7,933,951 458,754 5 Extended /dev/sdb5 7,475,200 7,933,951 458,752 82 Linux swap / Solaris "blkid" output: ________________________________________________________________ Device UUID TYPE LABEL /dev/sda1 249cd791-45d0-45f8-9d8b-65bac7e8d70f ext4 /dev/sda5 c3f67a6e-3291-496d-a4a3-1b8a45e29062 swap /dev/sdb1 1CEC-1AD6 vfat /dev/sdb5 f49dfc99-2007-4c7a-a0f4-6561b2b662e2 swap /dev/sdh 8C84-649B vfat ================================ Mount points: ================================= Device Mount_Point Type Options /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1 vfat (rw,noatime,quiet,umask=0,check=s,shortname=mixed) /dev/sdg /mnt/sdg vfat (rw) /dev/sdh /mnt/sdh vfat (rw) ======================= sdb1/boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg: ======================= -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INCLUDE /boot/slax.cfg -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- =================== sdb1: Location of files loaded by Grub: ==================== GiB - GB File Fragment(s) ?? = ?? boot/initrd.gz ?? = ?? boot/vmlinuz ================= sdb1: Location of files loaded by Syslinux: ================== GiB - GB File Fragment(s) ?? = ?? boot/syslinux/ldlinux.sys ?? = ?? boot/syslinux/menu.c32 ?? = ?? boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg ============== sdb1: Version of COM32(R) files used by Syslinux: =============== boot/syslinux/menu.c32 : COM32R module (v4.xx) ========= Devices which don't seem to have a corresponding hard drive: ========= hda sdc sdd sde sdf =============================== StdErr Messages: =============================== File descriptor 11 (socket:[12153]) leaked on lvscan invocation. Parent PID 8993: /bin/bash mdadm: No arrays found in config file |
There is possible damage to the file-system which is most likely why those errors appeared. You can use the ubuntu live boot USB to try and fix this by running the following command:
1 2 3 | $ sudo e2fsck -f -y -v /dev/sda1 |
RESULT:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 | e2fsck 1.42 (29-Nov-2011) /dev/sda1: recovering journal Clearing orphaned inode 24379404 (uid=121, gid=132, mode=0100600, size=0) Clearing orphaned inode 24379405 (uid=121, gid=132, mode=0100600, size=0) Clearing orphaned inode 24379398 (uid=0, gid=0, mode=0100644, size=0) Clearing orphaned inode 24379403 (uid=117, gid=126, mode=0100600, size=0) Clearing orphaned inode 24379402 (uid=117, gid=126, mode=0100600, size=0) Clearing orphaned inode 24379401 (uid=117, gid=126, mode=0100600, size=0) Clearing orphaned inode 24379400 (uid=117, gid=126, mode=0100600, size=0) Clearing orphaned inode 24379399 (uid=117, gid=126, mode=0100600, size=0) Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Pass 4: Checking reference counts Pass 5: Checking group summary information Free blocks count wrong (104783285, counted=104783276). Fix? yes Free inodes count wrong (29656150, counted=29656243). Fix? yes /dev/sda1: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***** 744269 inodes used (2.45%) 12650 non-contiguous files (1.7%) 361 non-contiguous directories (0.0%) # of inodes with ind/dind/tind blocks: 0/0/0 Extent depth histogram: 697224/673/3 16791636 blocks used (13.81%) 0 bad blocks 3 large files 655942 regular files 26961 directories 58 character device files 25 block device files 2 fifos 16 links 61238 symbolic links (46242 fast symbolic links) 34 sockets -------- 744276 files |
Once the command completes, and assuming there are no errors, reboot the computer taking out the Live CD/USB. I hope it will work for you.
