Re: Fwd: Fw: ubuntu problem

["Jerry Feldman-2" <user=4@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:35:01 -0700 
"Kristian Erik Hermansen" <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 
> From: Richard E Smith <[hidden email]> 
> Date: Oct 26, 2007 9:24 PM 
> Subject: Fw: ubuntu problem 
> To: [hidden email] 
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> I have been running 'feisty fawn' quite reliably for some time and had 
> begun with v:6.06 LTS from CD back in the beginning. 
> Problem: 
>         Today I received a upgrade to 'Gutsy Gibbon' v 7.10 message 
> and because of all of the hype, I went ahead and started the upgrade 
> foolishly. During the upgrade it asked me if I wanted to remove 
> current settings so I said yes. The Installation finished and started 
> the reboot. Everything looked good right up through "Grub 2". The 
> orange ubuntu logo screen came up and started the orange loading line 
> under it and than it seemed to freeze. The screen cleared after a 
> short time and came up with BusyBox v1.1.3 (Debian 1:1.1.3-5ubuntu7) 
> Built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands. 
> (initranfs) - 
>         I typed 'help'/enter and got a list of commands similar to 
> those I am so familiar with from early versions of 'dos' command 
> lines. However this being a derivative of UNIX I am out in the cold. 
> Can I recover from this? Or should I reformat and send for / or 
> download the CD and reinstall. Or go back to 'Feisty Fawn' and wait 
> for better days? 
>         If you can't help maybe you could direct me to someone who could? 
> Help, 
>         Dick Smith 
> PS: Machine is a Pentium III, 450Mhz, with 384 M of ram. (wife's machine).