[Bug 1236642] Re: failed to execute /init

[Rob Frohne]

This might help too:

frohro at frohro-e6410:/media/frohro/5b901d56-389b-48b1-a911-08dab37d228d$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for frohro: 

Disk /dev/sda: 128.0 GB, 128035676160 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 15566 cylinders, total 250069680 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000ea3e1

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *        2046   134223871    67110913    5  Extended
/dev/sda2       134223872   250068991    57922560   83  Linux
/dev/sda5         7811072   134223871    63206400   83  Linux
/dev/sda6            2048     7811071     3904512   82  Linux swap / Solaris

Another thing:  My other partition has Ubuntu 13.04 32 bit and the 13.10
is the 64 bit.  My machine is a 64 bit one, a Dell E6410.

The error message says look at this document:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/init.txt

I don't see anything that I can tag as a problem from that.  I must be
missing it.

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Title:
  failed to execute /init

Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
  New

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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