here is the attempt at support if you want to look at it and you are on mint's forum. https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=378087&start=20 On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 2:16 PM Michael wrote: > I've been fighting with Mint for a while now. I installed mint21 and it > runs great for about 5 loads then stuff happens. First it would boot into > busybox. I tryed the fsck and that would work sometimes then the kernel > began to panic after a week. I would reinstall and the process (busy > box.... reinstall) would start over. This has been going on about two > weeks. The kernel paniced tonight (it skipped the busybox step) and I > finally looked at the output: > > initramfs unpacking failed: ZSTD - compressed data is corrupt > Failed to execute /init (error - 2) > Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found. > Try passing init=option to kernel. > > So I ask those who are much smarter than me (you) what all this means. > What init=option could I pass to the kernel? And what about the ZSTD..... > data? > What can I do? > You know, now that I think about it this problem coincides with the date > of the new release (or at least my update of the system after such). Things > that make you go hmmmmmmmm..... > That was a post onto Mint's support page. I haven't received any replies > in like 4 days. I am thinking it is time to try a different distro. I was > thinking about VOID. A couple of questions: what about my /home partition, > will it transfer seamlessly? Do you think void will fix the problem or else > what do you recommend? > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: