<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><div style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Recently I tried to install 12.04 on a Compaq mini. Previously it had window xp installed and was frozen when it was getting out of hiberation. </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font face="Arial" size="3">I did a clean install of 12.04 but there appears to be </font><font face="Arial">kernel</font><font face="Arial" size="3"> errors</font></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">If I start it up it goes into a cursor and nothing else. If I try to boot from usb I can get into some ubuntu boot menus but they mostly seem to yield the following:</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"[8.088394]Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">[8.088459]Pid: 1, comm: swappe/0 Not tainted 3.2.0-23-generic-pae #36-Ubuntu</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">[8.088510]Call Trace:"</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">There's some others parts on screen but I think the panic is the most significant.</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">There is a white light that flashes on the unit in the upper left. It does not respond to the keyboard and results in me having to reset it.</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Memory tests and BIOS run fine.</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Is there any way to format the hard drive as it is now? </div></div></body></html>