Kernel panic when booting from live USB [Solved]

[Charlie Brown]

What if you use a different usb stick?

It may be due to faulty hardware.


(You can also change splash to nosplash on the installed system to see if the same /similar is on the installed system (though it manages to boot)).


Also you can try (other than trying another stick): re-generate the initrd image(s) (on the installed system) then create the snapshot :

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sudo update-initramfs -uk all

[Adrian]

Can you boot the ISO in a VM? Do you have anything set up on the computer, VirtualBox, VMWare, KVM? You could try the ISO in a VM that would eliminate the USB question.

[fehlix]

Or add a fromiso grub menu entry, in case you don't have a VM setup to boot iso attached to the VM.

A fromiso-Gub menu entry looks something like this:
with the snapshot iso "MX-snapshot.iso" copied into an /iso/ directory on an ext4 file system:
adjust boot options as desired:

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# custom.cfg
# save under /boot/grub/custom.cfg
#
menuentry "ISO-Boot MX-snapshot.iso" {
  isopath=/iso/MX-snapshot.iso
  bootoptions="kbd=de kbvar=nodeadkeys kbopt=caps:none lang=de tz=Europe/Amsterdam" 

  insmod ext2
  insmod part_gpt
  insmod part_msdos
  insmod probe
  insmod loopback
  # use this to search for the full isopath
  search --no-floppy --file --set=root $isopath
  probe -u $root --set=buuid
  loopback loop $isopath
  linux  (loop)/antiX/vmlinuz buuid=${buuid} fromiso=${isopath} quiet splasht nosplash ${bootoptions}
  initrd (loop)/antiX/initrd.gz
}

[shmu26]

how about your excludes file?

Not sure where to find that file. But when I made the snapshot, I did not exclude anything. I checked no boxes and I did not edit the text file.

[fehlix]

Maybe check the file
/etc/initrd_release
and fix the 2nd VERSION= line
by adding a mssing ["] double quote, if missing,
before making the snapshot.
As mentioned here:
viewtopic.php?p=763190#p763190

[shmu26]

Maybe check the file
/etc/initrd_release
and fix the 2nd VERSION= line
by adding a mssing ["] double quote, if missing,
before making the snapshot.
As mentioned here:
viewtopic.php?p=763190#p763190

Thanks for the follow-up and I am happy to see that the issue was resolved.

[Charlie Brown]

Then as the starter of "this" thread you (only you) can mark it as solved :)