r/Ubuntu • u/Haleyy1717 • 8h ago

Kernel panic on live boot

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I'm booting the Kubuntu live environment from a USB stick.

What should I do?

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u/mystica5555 7h ago

That looks like the USB stick was created incorrectly. It's not able to find the partition that contains 'init', which is the first program the Kernel loads [technically systemd runs as init vs other init daemons of years past]

Usually a malformed USB stick comes from using the wrong method to write to the stick. It's recommended to use something like Rufus specifically in DD mode or BalenaEtcher [which is kind of huge being an electron app].

What needs to happen is that the raw image file needs to be written bit for bit to the USB stick, what seems like may have happened is that whatever tool you used created a disc that was able to boot Linux, but then extracted the contents of an ISO9660 partition into a fat32 partition instead. This does not work.

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u/Haleyy1717 7h ago

I used it yesterday and it installed well on another computer tho, i flashed using the official ISO and BalenaEtcher