Ubuntu Nvidia driver install broke Ubuntu 24.04 (Stuck in Busybox)

Ubuntu Version:
24.04 LTS

Problem Description:
After installing the Nvidia drivers via sudo ubuntu-drivers install it gave me some console errors (which I sadly were not able to screenshot) and made Ubuntu crash. I was not able to click anything, each window started to disappear and I was no longer able to run any application, even the Terminal was affected. After that I am stuck in Ubuntus Busybox and I have no plan if I can recover the current Ubuntu installation and what exactly to do. I am not such a in-depth Linux users and I am kinda lost here.

Relevant System Information:
GPU: Nvidia RTX 2080
Ubuntu is installed without dual boot
One SSD as main drive, two HDDs running in software RAID 0

Screenshots or Error Messages:



What I’ve Tried:
I have tried finding posts having a similar issue, but I was never able to find anything that really helped me.
Like this one:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1437323/ubuntu-no-longer-boots-after-reinstalling-graphics-driver
Busybox never executed the grep command

I have also tried booting into a different Kernel without success.

Am I cooked and have to reinstall my Ubuntu install? :sweat_smile:

Thanks for the help in advance!

Your system obviously crashed hard during a write operation, so your filesystem is corrupt. As the message on screen tells you, you should try to run fsck to repair it …

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During my search I encountered several posted stating to be careful with it, so I probably just got scared to completely mess up my install.
Thanks for the help anyways, running it manually for that drive repaired my install and it’s working again.
Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks again!

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