[Bug 1236642] Re: failed to execute /init

[Rob Frohne]

I went and tried the daily build from today, and the first reboot I did
recovery mode so I could see what was happening.  I noticed the kernel
panic was different than the ones I get subsequently.  I thought I took
a photo of it, but the camera button didn't get pushed properly, and I
missed it.  Even though I formatted the partition, I now notice that
there is an initrd.img.old in the / directory.

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Title:
  failed to execute /init

Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I installed Ubuntu 13.10 _x64bit by this method last night (10/6/2013)
  and ended up with a kernel panic with the message "failed to  execute
  /init"  and here is how I installed it:

  1)  Using 13.04 on another partition of the same hard drive, made using unetbootin a flash drive with the latest daily Ubuntu _x64 image on it.
  2)  Booted on the USB drive, selected to do an "other partitioning" scheme, and set / to 60 Gigs of the remaining free space, and swap to 4 GB.  Then went through the install with the download from the Internet selected.  When it was done and said it was ready to reboot, I tried, but got the error, which I was able to read using the boot into recovery mode option.

  I enclosed a photo of the kernel panic screen.

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