Array failed dropped to initramfs on boot

Nikumba · 12 Oct 2013 at 19:09

So one of the arrays on my NAS has died, squealing drive death noise etc etc, anyway server rebooted and now Ubuntu will not boot as there are not enough drives to bring up the array, which is annoying as I have lost a load of stuff but nothing I cannot get again.

So I do not have my live-cd to hand nor any blank CD's to burn a new one, but on boot it drops me out to (initramfs)

I know if I can etc my fstab file I can remove the lines that auto mount the arrays and get booted into Ubuntu but I can not find the command or how to do it, I did try sudo vi /etc/fstab but tells me sudo: not found

Anything else I can try before I get some blank CD's?

Cheers

Kimbie

BigglesPiP · 12 Oct 2013 at 20:05

A USB stick?

Can you not pick single user mode from GRUB and manually mount just / or /etc, then edit the file and reboot?

Nikumba · 13 Oct 2013 at 10:37

Tried the USB stick route but the mobo I have doesn't seem to want to boot from it.

Will have a look at the single user mode option to see if its there and give it a try

Thanks

memyselfandi · 14 Oct 2013 at 12:55

Have you tried just vi'ing the file without the sudo. Given how early it's bombing out in the boot process your console session is probably running as root.

Nikumba · 14 Oct 2013 at 14:00

vi comes up with command not found error