How to ignore initramfs

[slow hollow]

Hi, my dad is using a laptop, he’s not that tech literate, but when he boots up Linux he’s getting the “BusyBox” initramfs screen. Every time I’ll have to do

(initramfs) exit

/Dev/sda2 had an unexpected inconsistency. Run fsck manually
Fsck exited with status code 4

So then I’ll run fsck /dev/sda2 -y

It’ll do it’s thing and by the time I reboot it the laptop works fine.

The problem is that, the frequency that it happens means that I have to be by him every time when he turns on the laptop. It’s an obvious inconvenience

Is there any way to ignore the BusyBox shell so that it boots up directly to the homescreen? This problem usually happens after updates, but it can occur randomly too. Is there any way to just brute-force my way into the GUI, irrespective of errors? My Dad uses Google Chrome only, so I usually only update Chrome and do security updates.

Thanks in advance

[stark magnet]

you can't ignore it because it is responsible for booting up your computer. the issue is really unusual and I never saw such before. did the issue start happening randomly or was it always like that?

[slow hollow]

Sorry for the late reply, but yeah, it’s happening randomly

[amber musk]

erm. sounds like a bad installation

[golden pewter]

Probably the drive is going bad

[amber musk]

/Dev/sda2 had an unexpected inconsistency. Run fsck manually
Fsck exited with status code 4

oh yeah.

[golden pewter]

You can check the drive for errors with the disks app. You can also boot up and select memtest from the live media to check the memory

[amber musk]

also from live usb desktop, terminal: sudo fsck /dev/sda2