Hi all,
here´s the scenario:
My main system is Linux Lite 6.2 and it is installed on an external HDD.
It´s a “Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Elements 25A2”. So I always boot my system from there. I´ve been doing it this way for years now and it´s been working really well.
9 days ago however, shortly after pressing the on/off button, the status messages reported something about “kernel panic”, and the system wouldn´t boot.
So I pressed the on/off button (holding it down for a while) in order to power the machine down. The OS hadn´t booted anyway.
Immediately after that I tried again and this time it worked flawlessly. No message of that kind anymore and the OS booted alright.
I believe the kernel panic message related to a USB device 1-1.2.3, which points to my HDD.
I started the PC every day for the past 9 days and it has been working fine ever since. No problems.
Today however (after 9 days) that kernel panic business happened again.
These are the messages I don´t like:
- failed to execute /init (error -2)
- Kernel panic - not syncinc … no working init found. Try passing init= option to kernel
- panic …
- end kernel panic .
I tried to boot a second time and now it worked flawlessly again.
As for hardware, I think it´s alright for me. I checked the HDD´s health with 'smartctl' and everything looks alright there.
I also tested my RAM with `memtester' from inside the running system and with 'memtest' as well.
No errors reported. I think (and hope) we may rule out any hardware issues.
I´m pretty clueless about this intermittent boot failure...
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks a lot in advance.
Many greetings from Rosika
