boot from external hard drive

[Gary Kirkpatrick]

My hard disk is bad and instead of buying a new one I would prefer to boot
from my external hard drive.  I installed 13.10 on it.  When I boot  I get

1.168876 kernel panic-  not syncing:  no init found.  try passing
init)option to kernel

I followed the instructions here:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/43174/installing-ubuntu-on-external-hard-disk?rq=1


I have tried booting with the hard drive connected and disconnected.  I
installed with it disconnected.  Seemed to hang up with it connected.

Thanks for any suggestions


garyk


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