boot error

[foodiggler]

getting an error message when trying to boot to ubuntu... has been working fine until i needed to reboot, had uptime of nearly a year... hard drive failure???

here are the errors... thanks for any insight...

hmmm, wont let me post img urls... fine, i will type...

Starting up ...
Loading, please wait...
/scripts/init-top/brltty: 19: grep: not found
FATAL: Error inserting capability (/lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/kernel/security/capability.ko): Invalid argument
Gave up waiting for the root device. Common problems:
 - Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
   - Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
   - Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?)
 - Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/32786yha-long-id-blah does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
(initramfs) _

[Lakshmipathi]

check this thread : [ubuntu] Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev) - problem during boot os - Ubuntu Forums

[foodiggler]

excellent... thank you very much for the reply and link... suppose a little more intensive search with keywords from the error would've helped but, thanks..

my solution was to replace the existing /boot/initrd.img... file with the backup that was there.. (luckily i had a knoppix disc laying around)

[Lakshmipathi]

(luckily i had a knoppix disc laying around)

yes,that helps...always carry different distros CD/DVD - it will help you at some point that's why i have more than dozen CD/DVD distros with my linux lappy