Hello, I am having some difficulty installing Scientific Linux 6.
My current HDD is dual booting Windows 10 and Linux Mint 18. It is also mostly full. So I would like to create a Live USB that can install a full version onto another 128 GB USB drive...basically the 128 GB drive would function similar to an external hard drive that I would have SL6 installed onto. I have tried to create a Live USB of SL6 using UNETBOOTIN from my Linux Mint 18 partition. I also tried to create a Live USB using Universal USB Installer from my Windows 10 partition. Both of these methods gave the same result. I would reboot my computer, with the BIOS boot priority set to look for USB flash drive first. It would give me a menu. I could either boot into live DVD, or select install SL6. In all cases it starts to either boot, or go to install depending on the choice. Before the process completes I then get the following in both cases: Kernal panic -not syncing:Attempted to kill init Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 2.6.32-642.3.1.el6.x86_64 #1 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81546c27>] ? panic+0xa7/0x179 [<ffffffff8112ae40>] ? perf_event_exit_task+0xc0/0x340 [<ffffffff81081f37>] ? do_exit+0x867/0x870 [<ffffffff8119b695>] ? fput+0x25/0x30 [<ffffffff81808f98>] ? do_group_exit+0x58/0xd0 [<ffffffff81082027>] ? sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20 [<ffffffff8100b0d2>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b I then tried all of the suggestions in the first post of: http://scientificlinuxforum.org/index.php?showtopic=1433 However, I get the same error as above. I then tried to perform a network install. After creating a Live USB with the netinstall ISO, I rebooted. I then followed all of the prompts for setting up an install. It then asked me to setup and confirm my partitions. I then confirmed the install configuration. It then gave me a new window that said that: "Installer has tried to mount image #1, but cannot find it on the hard drive." In all cases, the creation of the Live USB gave no errors, so I do not suspect any problems with this part. I have tried the following ISO files: SL6.8: x86_64 DVD, x86_64_CD, i386, and netInstall SL6.7:x86_64 DVD, netInstall SL6.3: x_86_64 DVD Sometimes it's useful to know system specs to debug issues. The specs of my laptop are: ACER Aspire E 15 intel Core i5-6200U 2.3 GHz intel HD graphics 520 4 GB DDR4 RAM 1 TB HDD Dual Boot OS: Windows10 and Linux Mint18 Any help or input would be greatly appreciated! Best Regards, Shawn
