boot from external hard drive (RESOLVVED)

[Gary Kirkpatrick]

On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 8:28 AM, Gary Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Gary Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> 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
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>> 1.168876 kernel panic-  not syncing:  no init found.  try passing
>> init)option to kernel
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>> I followed the instructions here:
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>> http://askubuntu.com/questions/43174/installing-ubuntu-on-external-hard-disk?rq=1
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>> I have tried booting with the hard drive connected and disconnected.  I
>> installed with it disconnected.  Seemed to hang up with it connected.
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>> Thanks for any suggestions
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>> garyk
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> When I look at the drive and open Home, I do not see the normal folders
> there--  such as Desktop,Download, etc.  I also installed onto another
> external hard drive and I am getting the same error message.
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> Everything I read refers to a hard drive problem.  Wonder if it could be
> something else in the box-  but why would it run perfectly off a USB?
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> garyk
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I installed Lubuntu on another external drive and it runs fine.  I
downloaded and installed ubuntu 13.04 32 bit and I installed it.  Runs
fine.  For some reason the 64 bit did not work, although the box in
question is 64 bit.


garyk
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