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I cannot boot my PC. I have searched Ask Ubuntu for this, and found posts dated from 2015 and 2016 and I have followed the instructions. Going to Grub menu always brings me back to a black screen with these messages:

[    0.072959] ACPI Exception: Could not find/resolve named package element: LNK
D (20170831/dspkginit-381)
[    0.073059] ACPI Exception: Could not find/resolve named package element: LNK
B (20170831/dspkginit-381)
[    0.073102] ACPI Exception: Could not find/resolve named package element: LNK
C (20170831/dspkginit-381)
[    0.073144] ACPI Exception: Could not find/resolve named package element: LNK
D (20170831/dspkginit-381)
[    0.073186] ACPI Exception: Could not find/resolve named package element: LNK
A (20170831/dspkginit-381)
/dev/sda1 contains a file system with errors, check forced.
/dev/sda1:
Inode 25690521 extent tree (at level 1) could be shorter.  IGNORED.
/dev/sda1: Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found.

/dev/sda1: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
           (i.e., without -a or -p options)
fsck exited with status code 4
The root filesystem on /dev/sda1 requires a manual fsck

BusyBox v1.27.2 (Ubuntu 1:1.27.2-2ubuntu3.2) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

(initranfs)_

I am not by any measure tech minded, so the community help as I understand it has not worked.

To raise some issues people have mentioned in the posts:

  1. I don't dual boot. I only have Ubuntu. Windows has been uninstalled and replaced by Ubuntu.

  2. I cannot run fsck. All posts I have consulted do not give me a starting point what to do to get to the needed starting point or anything I can readily identify in order to do the steps suggested, i.e., I am totally lost. I don't know from where to begin. I assume one needs to have some programming knowledge to understand what is being suggested.

  3. Entering "help" in BusyBox just brings up a list of commands in alphabetical order, but I have no idea what to do from there.

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    The easiest way is to boot 'live' media (eg. Ubuntu install media and selecting "Try Ubuntu") then fsck your partition(s) from there. By booting the 'live' media your hdd/ssd won't be in use, so you won't have any in-use issues blocking you. You can use commands, or if you boot a desktop media, can do the fsck using gnome-disks, gparted or another GUI tool using point & click. Commented Jun 7, 2020 at 13:43
  • This question is similar to: fsck error on boot: /dev/sda6: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. If you believe it’s different, please edit the question, make it clear how it’s different and/or how the answers on that question are not helpful for your problem. Commented Mar 28 at 5:32

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if you want to do this out of initramfs: 

fsck.ext3 /dev/sda1
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  • I have tried the command line suggested. I het the following message :(initramfs) fsck.ext3 /dev/sda11 sh: fsck.ext3/dev/sda1: not found - I have also tried this command line with a space added after "ext3" but got the same result. What do I do now ? I still cannot boot my PC. Commented Jun 8, 2020 at 14:09
  • Well you can check which devices you have with ls /dev/sda* , based on your original post it should be sda1 , also the command might be either 'fsck.ext3' or 'fsck.ext4' , is it too hard to gain a live linux on stick ? That would be much easier zhan fiddling with your initramfs that we don't know. (And did you read yur sms inbox?) Commented Jun 8, 2020 at 15:19

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