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?
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