[Gllug] Installing Ubuntu on USB 2 HD - Kernel Panic - Help!

[David Abbishaw]

Hi all,

Just installed Ubuntu onto an external USB 2 hard disk, the install goes
fine, finds the disk, partitions it etc then on the first reboot the machine
boots from the usb disk, starts grub and starts loading as normal until the
following happens

pivot_root: No such file or directory 
/sbin/init: 418: cannot open dev/console: No such file
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

Any ideas, I'm guessing I need to edit grub and add some extras to the
kernel to support booting USB 2.  Tried acpi=off but that had no effect.

Any ideas?

David


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