linux crash....Please help

[kdubb2772]

Good morning, I bought and intel celeron nuc
Put a 24gb msata, 2gb ram and a wireless card in it
fired it up, put linux mint 16 cinnamon as my OS and xbmc.
Worked great for a day then while installing a repository it black screened and froze.

After I rebooted it says "kernel panic not syncing attempted to kill init"

I have tried to just boot from live usb but also does not work.

I am not very tech savy but is there a way to wipe the system through bios? I also tried to boot ubuntu from usb with the same fail.
I can enter grub command but that's it.

I am not sure what to do from here....Please help

Thank you for your time

 

[mjmacka]

You can't wipe a PC through the BIOS.

Does your motherboard have onboard diagnostics built into it? That's where I would start first.

 

[kdubb2772]

I don't think it does unfortunately

 

[mjmacka]

I don't think it does unfortunately

Sounds like bad hardware.

When you boot form your flash drive do you get to the GUI that allows you to install Ubuntu/Mint? Or does it crash before that?

 

[kdubb2772]

Yes I can get there and it says
Try ubuntu
Install ubuntu
Run test

I have tried them all and it goes to the an ubuntu screen and stops there...or says the kernel panic message

 

[mjmacka]

Hm... You are booting off of a Flash Drive right?

If so, try a different flash drive. If it's CD/DVD try a different one.

Then I want you to try to run the built in memory test.

 

[kdubb2772]

Yes from a flash drive...The first install I did with linux was from a flash drive then installed it on the HD. Once it crashed and wouldn't reboot I tried booting it from a flash drive with no luck.
I then tried booting from a different flash drive no luck again. That is when I tried ubuntu and again same outcome.

As far as the memory test goes...I only have access to bios...which I don't see a memory test in. Is there somewhere else I should be looking?

I ran the test from the ubuntu gui but it just freezes on the start up screen

 

[kdubb2772]

Thank you for your time on this mjmacka!

 

[mjmacka]

Just for kicks, do you have a Windows XP/7 disk you could try installing windows from? I want to see how far you get with a different OS.

 

[kdubb2772]

Unfortunately no I dont...I Thought I Did But Cant Find it

 

[kdubb2772]

here is the link with the error messages I get


http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=5133928#post5133928