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After losing power, my machine rebooted to this error:

“error: no init found. Try passing init=bootarg”

Per similar threads on this site and others, I've tried booting from a CD and selecting "Try Ubuntu". Then open a terminal and typing:

sudo fsck-y /dev/sda1.

The response is:

Device or resource busy while trying to open /dev/sda1. Filesystem mounted or opened exclusively by another program?

This is on Ubuntu 10.10.

Any ideas on what I can try next?

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Try sudo umount /dev/sda1 from the terminal in the LiveCD before running fsck – izx Jul 27 '12 at 22:43
umount: /dev/sda1: not mounted – glutz Jul 29 '12 at 17:57

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Answer here: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1728611.html

back in business.

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Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! Whilst this may theoretically answer the question, it would be preferable to include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for reference. – fossfreedom♦ Jul 29 '12 at 18:47
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Here is a tutorial in the form of a detailed list of what steps to take to solve this problem...as listed by the original poster of the thread but improved by me.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=12268329#post12268329

This appears to work on every release of Ubuntu as I did it on 12.04

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1.Create Puppy linux Live usb or live cd

2.Boot from live usb and go to console

3.run fsck to fix filesystem

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How is this any different from using Ubuntu live cd? – Mahesh Nov 18 '12 at 13:36

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