Kernel Panic

Tue Aug 23 06:56:35 MST 2022

I’ve been trying to preserve home. So that might be the problem? Yea,
manjaro wouldn’t install either. The boot loader could not be installed.

On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 4:24 AM Matthew Gibson via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> Have you done a nuke and pave install or are you limping your /home along?
> you could have some “could not be installed form of corrupted config file
> in your home that might be causing problems. worth a thought. and a stroll
> through your home dir.
> To
> Thanks for the update. Keep up the troubleshooting spirit!
>
> TTFN
> Matthew
>
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 10:23 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> I spoke too soon. It boot into busybox this morning. So it is looking
>> like it is the hard drive after all. One mor operating system to try before
>> I buy the new hard drive. I was told arch works best so (while not arch)
>> manjaro is what I will try. I tried to install arch but it failed while I
>> was installing it.
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 5:12 AM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> okay, here is a little update. I installed 20.3 and ran it like two days
>>> with no busybox error. I then update the operating system (not
>>> dist-upgrade) and the next boot gave the hardware splashscreen and then it
>>> went black. So I can live with the computer but can't update it. Oh well.
>>> It will only be for a year!
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 6:30 PM Matthew Gibson via PLUG-discuss <
>>> plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> eh. Just pointed you in the right direction. Good luck in your
>>>> distro-hop.
>>>>
>>>> Matthew
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 3:28 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss <
>>>> plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks so much for taking the time out of your day to teach me how I
>>>>> should have looked into the error  and you solved my problem. So I’ll
>>>>> distro hop till I find something that doesn’t panic.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 5:21 PM Matthew Gibson via PLUG-discuss <
>>>>> plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Salutations.
>>>>>> Taking a peek at a quick internet search for the keywords "initramfs
>>>>>> zstd compression" and perusing the listings with the knowledge that Michael
>>>>>> is using Mint21 (I'm assuming it's similarly labeled following it's parent
>>>>>> of Ubuntu) it seems likely that there is an issue with the compression
>>>>>> being run on that particular hardware. Then I found this article by
>>>>>> Phoronix which gives added weight to the theory that it is a compression
>>>>>> problem: Ubuntu Rethinking Its Initramfs Compression Strategy -
>>>>>> Phoronix
>>>>>> <https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Initramfs-Zstd-Too-High>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It's likely that Mint22 or even Ubuntu21.xx LTS will not have the
>>>>>> same problem. That's just my theory though. Use at your own discretion.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As for this little jewel of disdain ridden text: "Who ever needed
>>>>>> init system support before systemd?" Literally anyone who wasn't familiar
>>>>>> with the technology and didn't RTFM.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Just the thoughts of a Gentoo-Juvenile-now-Fedora-Adult.
>>>>>> Michael, Hope you find a solution you like for your woes.
>>>>>> Steve, Stay Sassy friend.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> TTFN
>>>>>> Matthew
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 1:13 AM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <
>>>>>> plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, 2022-08-16 at 19:47 +0000, T Zack Crawford via PLUG-discuss
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > You could go to a distro which has something other than systemd
>>>>>>> for init,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yes yes yes yes, YES!!!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> > but recognize  you will be missing some features (which could
>>>>>>> probably be done
>>>>>>> > with something else), the daemon services will be written and
>>>>>>> managed differently,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> s/differently/better/ in the case of the runit init system.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> > and there are a lot fewer people available for support.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Who ever needed init system support before systemd?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> > Unfortunately, a bit of FLOSSware is written with the assumption
>>>>>>> you're using
>>>>>>> > systemd.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Who needs Gnome and the Snap packager anyway?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> > I tried Artix for a hot minute but decided ultimately it wasn't
>>>>>>> for me because
>>>>>>> > either a) I am dependent on the distributers to maintain their
>>>>>>> repositories which
>>>>>>> > are often missing packages for configuring daemon services or b) I
>>>>>>> would be
>>>>>>> > compiling packages for myself and writing my own init scripts.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Try Void Linux. All major software, and even some minor software, is
>>>>>>> supported. Void
>>>>>>> uses the Runit init system. With runit, writing your own init
>>>>>>> scripts (called run
>>>>>>> scripts) is trivial --- easier than writing a systemd Unit File.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Note that the s6 init system is a little more complicated and
>>>>>>> featureful, but what I
>>>>>>> said about runit is true of s6 too.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> SteveT
>>>>>>> A happy Void and Runit user for 7 years
>>>>>>>
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