BUSYBOX!

Asked by Michael James

     Bah! I dual boot Vista and Hardy and what first happened was I shut down Vista and went into Ubuntu. I got to the GDM and logged in; whilst logging in I got the error that says I have been logged in for less than 10 seconds and that there was a problem. When it tried to go back to GDM I got the Xserver blue screen of fail. I turned my computer off (I don't remember if it was through the power button or a command). I turned it and once GRUB selected my 24-18 kernel to boot it gave me error 2: Bad file or Directory. I reboot and changed GRUB to use the 24-17 kernel and after it was done "waiting for resume device" it dropped me to a busybox.
     I looked at the kernels (/boot/) under Vista and found that the 24-18 kernels had nothing in them. As in Vista said that they took up 0KB of space.
     I went into a openSUSE live cd to do a fsck and it found that just about every inode had something wrong with it; the check took at least 50 min and I had to tape down the "Y" button. ;-)
     I rebooted and now when I tried the 24-18 kernel I got error 15: Bad file. The kernel still has nothing in it and the other kernels I have (24-17, and 24-16) both drop to busyboxes.

What to do!?

Can I get on a live CD and just replace some files?

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Michael James (mbj1103) said :
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I found that I lost the whole /etc/ folder sometime between me hitting enter after typing in my username/ password and about 3 seconds later....
I have two options: re-install or get an /etc/ from a friend.
I will go with the later.