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

[NorthLondon John]

On 5 Oct 2004, at 08:11, David Abbishaw wrote:

> 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
>

Have you tried emailing the ubuntu users mailing list? It's heavy 
trafffic, so if you don't want to, do you mind if I forward this email 
to it?

I've just scanned the list for kernel panic and not found anything too 
specific - but whenever the kernel is involved, the first piece of 
advice is to make sure the kernel is up to date. If you're using Warty 
Warthog (ubuntu preview 4.10) try the latest snapshot (Sounder 9) or 
one of the dailies - both of which are more recent.

John



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