<div dir="ltr"><div>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 <br><br>1.168876 kernel panic-  not syncing:  no init found.  try passing init)option to kernel<br>
<br></div>I followed the instructions here:<br><br><div class=""><img class="" id=":z6" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/images/cleardot.gif" alt=""></div><a href="http://askubuntu.com/questions/43174/installing-ubuntu-on-external-hard-disk?rq=1" target="_blank">http://askubuntu.com/questions/43174/installing-ubuntu-on-external-hard-disk?rq=1</a><div class="">
<div id=":z0" class="" tabindex="0"><img class="" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/images/cleardot.gif"><br><br></div><div id=":z0" class="" tabindex="0">I have tried booting with the hard drive connected and disconnected.  I installed with it disconnected.  Seemed to hang up with it connected.<br>
<br>Thanks for any suggestions<br><br><br>garyk<br></div></div><br clear="all"><div>
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