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I was rebooting the PC without doing any modification or installing any package, but the boot end with initramfs screen, I have tried all the method like running fsck from the initramfs terminal, but doesn't work. Then I created a LiveUSB and boot, then run fsck on the drive /dev/sda6.

However when I reboot the intiramfs terminal appears again. This problem is happening frequently with my OS, all the time I have to reinstall the OS. Why this happens and how it fix permanently? My OS is Ubuntu 16.04.

boot error

Lorenz Keel
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1) Please see if this helps: Boot drops to a (initramfs) prompts/busybox

On link from above post says:Initramfs Prompt When Ubuntu Boots : This can occur when you have installed Ubuntu on an NTFS Windows partition and Windows was incorrectly shutdown.
Solution:

(initramfs)exit

You may get something like this —

/dev/sda1: Unexpected … fsck exited …. The root filesystem on /dev/sda1 requires manual fsck

BusyBox v1.22 ……

(initramfs)

… means etc etc.

Now use the following command

(initramfs)fsck /dev/sda1

(pl note that /dev/ is constant. sda1 is to be known from the line above — The root filesystem on /dev/sda1 requires manual fsck)

Here change sda1 with your

2) Another post Ubuntu 16.04/17.10 Boots to Initramfs

suggest this solution:

To check the file system on your Ubuntu partition...

boot to the GRUB menu
choose Advanced Options
choose Recovery mode
choose Root access
at the # prompt, type sudo fsck -f /
repeat the fsck command if there were errors
type reboot

If for some reason you can't do the above...

boot to a Ubuntu Live DVD/USB
start gparted and determine which /dev/sdaX is your Ubuntu EXT4 partition
quit gparted
open a terminal window
type sudo fsck -f /dev/sdaX # replacing X with the number you found earlier
repeat the fsck command if there were errors
type reboot
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