My Linux Mint Cinnamon won't boot up. It's getting stuck on this screen and I don't know what to do to proceed. Before this screen appears it shows the LM logo for a moment.
I'm a total noob and just been using this for a month or two. Did not make any recent changes that I can recall.
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if you type exit, it should re-enter initramfs with the exact error, probably a disk error. If so, it will tell you to run fsck on a specific disk.
Check this Ask Ubuntu question - https://askubuntu.com/questions/137655/boot-drops-to-a-initramfs-prompts-busybox
This seems to have worked, got my desktop back. I did fsck on something like /dev/sda9 then answered yes to fix a bunch of things. Thanks for your help.
Great to hear that it worked :D It is a very common error condition.