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BusyBox provides several stripped-down Unix tools in a single executable. It runs in a variety of POSIX environments such as Linux, Android, FreeBSD and others, such as proprietary kernels, although many of the tools it provides are designed to work with interfaces provided by the Linux kernel.

It was specifically created for embedded operating systems with very limited resources. It has been self-dubbed "The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux".

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Root file system requires manual fsck

Whenever I switch on Ubuntu I always see the following message. (Initramfs): /dev/sda1 contains a file system with errors, check forced. Inodes that were a part of a corrupted orphan linked lost found. /dev/sda1 : UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN…
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Ubuntu 15.10 - "BusyBox built-in shell (initramfs)" on every boot

Every time we reboot the Ubuntu PC, it's showing this screen, and not going anywhere, even when we typed exit. How to get rid of this nightmare permanently, so that it never ever happens? BusyBox v1.17.1 (Ubuntu 1:1.17.1-10ubuntu1) built-in shell…
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How do I do a manual fsck?

My pc doesn't want to start saying: /dev/mmcblk0p2p cointais a file system with errors, check forced. Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found. /dev/mmcblk0p2: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. (i.e., without…
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Ubuntu16.04 boots into initramfs

Ubuntu doesn't boot up and it goes into initramfs. I am writing from a live CD trial session. what should I do? I understand that the boot flow is broken and that when the files from root are going to be loaded into the ram, it does not find the…
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What exactly is Busybox / Ash?

What are BusyBox and ash? I have never seen a good explanation to what they are. I've used ash and I know it's a Linux shell, but I would like to get a real understanding of it.
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Using busybox's find to delete recursively some files

How can I find and delete all .jpg? -delete doesn't seem to work... [/share/Multimedia/Music] # find . -name '*.jpg' -delete BusyBox v1.01 (2015.01.25-18:47+0000) multi-call binary Usage: find [PATH...] [EXPRESSION] Search for files in a…
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Ubuntu Stuck at BusyBox `[Firmware Bug] : TSC_DEADLINE disabled due to Errata; please update microcode to version: 0x52 (or later)`

I am having problems booting my Ubuntu after an attempted hardware fix today. My laptop was working fine but had some minor issues, so we tried a different motherboard, which had a major issue, so we changed it back to the original board. However,…
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Full System encryption with LUKS on headless server - unlock with dropbear and busybox. How?

I encrypted a headless server with cryptsetup/LUKS. 2 HDDs with 512 MB /boot on /dev/md0 and 1,61 TB LUKS encrypted /dev/md1 with LVM containing /, swap, and others. I installed dropbear (and busybox was already installed) to unlock everything…
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How to switch to English in BusyBox?

my computer goes to busybox and (apparently) the keyboard is stuck on hebrew, therefore, i can not enter lowercase english letters and hebrew coms out as squares, how can I switch to English?
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Busybox initramfs again and again

I have ubuntu 16.04 installed.. whenever I boot the system and try to run ubuntu, busy box pops up. I do a manual check ---fsck -yf /dev/sda12--- and then reboot.. now the ubuntu boots properly but then after few minutes i am not able to save/write…
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ubuntu-server installation: is there a way to change the font size in BusyBox?

when installing ubuntu-server on a new laptop the default font of the installer and the BusyBox console is extremely small. is there a way to make it bigger while the system is running from a boot .iso? there is a setfont command but i have not…
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Can not boot! initramfs error!

I've had Ubuntu for a while and it'd been working fine till now. Every time I try to boot I get this message and I can not go any further: BusyBox v1.17.1 (Ubuntu 1:1.17.1-10ubuntu1) built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in…
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Stuck at Busybox v1.18.4 (ubuntu 1:1.18.4-2ubuntu2) built-in shell (ash) Enter help for a list of commands

I've installed win 7 and ubuntu 11.04. I was trying to upgrade my machine to 11.10. It was all good, it installed all the upgrades and asked me to restart. After restarting I got the login screen only once. After that there was just a blank screen.…
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Busybox: how to quit Busybox and/or shut down computer

I am on a terminal looking ("pre-boot") screen, in a utility/program called Busybox. By pre-boot, I mean that I am not booted into the GUI of an operating system. My computer loaded this utility/program instead of booting into the operating…
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"more" command doesn't work as expected in initramfs

I'm trying to watch dmesg output in (initramfs) but command output has more lines than a screen. So I see only the end of dmesg output. Busybox v1.21.1 has more command, but dmesg | more somehow doesn't work as expected (it shows complete output…
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