nunosempere
October 14th, 2020, 12:17 PM
Hi,
My Ubuntu installation goes to a purple screen, perhaps after I upgraded some packages yesterday. I get a "kernel panic not syncing no init found try passing init option to kernel" error, and boot-repair doesn't work; the pastebin it produces is here: http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/WJPp7npqKR/
(http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/WJPp7npqKR/)
I've googled around and tried various things. I've tried adding the nomodeset option to the kernel boot options, but this didn't work, so I reverted the change. I found the utility testdisk: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootSectorFix, but it hasn't proved useful, it tries to create an image.dd file which is too big for the USB I'm booting from.
It's also not clear to me how I should "pass the init option to the kernel; when I google the error I get the following pages, which don't solve my confusion: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50349253/kernel-panic-no-working-init-found-try-passing-init-option-to-kernel, https://askubuntu.com/questions/362437/kernel-panic-not-syncing-no-init-found-try-passing-init-option-to-kernel, https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/what-does-try-passing-init%3D%5C-option-to-kernel-mean-180473/
Any thoughts as to what I can do next? I have a good backup system with everything up to yesterday, so I'm also ok, but would be mildly inconvenienced by "nuke it from orbit" solution.
Note: My computer also has a Windows installation which doesn't work but which I don't care much about.
My Ubuntu installation goes to a purple screen, perhaps after I upgraded some packages yesterday. I get a "kernel panic not syncing no init found try passing init option to kernel" error, and boot-repair doesn't work; the pastebin it produces is here: http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/WJPp7npqKR/
(http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/WJPp7npqKR/)
I've googled around and tried various things. I've tried adding the nomodeset option to the kernel boot options, but this didn't work, so I reverted the change. I found the utility testdisk: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootSectorFix, but it hasn't proved useful, it tries to create an image.dd file which is too big for the USB I'm booting from.
It's also not clear to me how I should "pass the init option to the kernel; when I google the error I get the following pages, which don't solve my confusion: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50349253/kernel-panic-no-working-init-found-try-passing-init-option-to-kernel, https://askubuntu.com/questions/362437/kernel-panic-not-syncing-no-init-found-try-passing-init-option-to-kernel, https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/what-does-try-passing-init%3D%5C-option-to-kernel-mean-180473/
Any thoughts as to what I can do next? I have a good backup system with everything up to yesterday, so I'm also ok, but would be mildly inconvenienced by "nuke it from orbit" solution.
Note: My computer also has a Windows installation which doesn't work but which I don't care much about.