[dundee] Ubuntu installation challenges!

[brough colin]

On 24 April 2014 23:28, Andrew Clayton <andrew at digital-domain.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Apr 2014 22:12:48 +0100, brough colin wrote:
>
> > Tried asking about this on ubuntuforums.org, but so far no responses
> > - so trying more locally....
> >
> >  Trying to install Ubuntu 14.04 as the sole OS on a Dell Inspiron 570
> > desktop. ISO ubuntu-14.04-desktop-amd64.iso burned to USB stick using
> > unetbootin.
> >
> > Ubuntu runs from the stick OK, and the install process appears to go
> > OK, but when I try to boot the new installation I get the following
> > error:
> >
> > ----------------
> > Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found. Try passing init=
> > option to kernel. See Linux Documentation/init.txt for guidance.
> > CPU: 2 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 not tainted 3.13.0-24-generic #46-Ubuntu
> > Hardware name: Dell Inc. Inspiron 570 /04GJJT, BIOS A00 10/19/2009
> > 00000000 00000000 f74a3f78 c164b873 efcc332e f74a3f98 c16469ac
> > c1826f5c c1aa5c80 c1815698 efcc332e 00000000 c193ce80 f74a3fac
> > c1641cec c1815b80 c1815688 fffffff8 f74a2000 c1659ab7 c1641bf0
> > 00000000 00000000 00000000 Call Trace:
> > [<c164b873>] dump_stack+0x41/0x52
> > [<c16469ac>] panic+0x97/0x181
> > [<c1641cec>] kernel_init+0xfc/0x100
> > [<c1659ab7>] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x1b/0x28
> > [<c1641nf0>] ? rest_init+0x70/0x70
> > ---------------------
>
> [snip]
>
> > Any suggestions for things to check or try very welcome - never had
> > much occasion to play with grub, so wouldn't know how to go through
> > the stages that the installer is presumably doing and checking each
> > step...
>
> I don't think the problem is with grub, it seems to be booting the
> kernel OK.
>
> The problem seems to be that the kernel can't find /sbin/init
>
> Would need the rest of the kernel boot messages to make much more
> diagnostics.
>
> Andrew
>
>
That makes sense. How might I gather stuff that's "off the top of the
screen"? I've posted what I could see....
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