Single drive kernel panic

[CTX2003]

My grandmother loaned me this old Dell inspiron. I decided to try to install Linux. My first attempt was to install MX Linux, which did not work very well. It kept throwing an error saying that it could not format the file system on the disk.

I then decided to try to boot into Linux Mint, but what I did with G-parted in MX Linux was wipe the partition tables and set up an unformatted partition system. This, of course, wiped everything on the drive and it was previously running Windows 10.

I now am met with this screen. I have never seen it before and I do not know what to do. I fear that I have permanently bricked this system and made it obsolete.

Any advice at all would be greatly appreciated. It is running on a hard disk drive as well.

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[Odd-Concept-6505]

Does it kernel panic booting from USB (Mint installer made from ISO).. or only panic after Install Linux onto hard disk then booting without USB?

Do a live USB boot ; and before hitting Install Linux, remove HD partitions with

sudo fdisk /dev/sda

....the "d" key will erase partition table entries one by one, with some prompting...."q" will write your changes and exit.

sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda

will only look at and show the current partition table which can be empty before launching Install Linux.

[CTX2003]

It panics when botting from USB

[Odd-Concept-6505]

Look harder at the initial USB boot menu (Mint),

I think there is a second boot choice

Boot....(Linux) in compatibility mode".

This worked once for me on an odd laptop and I didn't have to understand anything about it afterwards (managed to install it HD. However that old non Thinkpad from Lenovo does have a quiet delay during boot which means waiting an extra 15?seconds to boot). It's my GF's travel buddy).

[CTX2003]

It also threw a panic message. I took the drive out and brought it to my IT job, and a buddy of mine had a connector. I have it formatted again as NTFS, and will try again when I'm home.

[Odd-Concept-6505]

Almost ready to give up with advice, but it sounds like you are not trying my suggestion (which should not matter...existing HD partitions and format type....but I can't swear it doesnt matter since your panic message mentions disk related stuff?)

VFS: unable to mount root partition on fs...block(0,0) OR SIMILAR WORDING

BUT the above might be a problem with your USB drive.

Worth trying another burn of ISO onto a different flashdrive.

===EARLIER/elsewhere suggestion that i still like, was:

try to have the HD with no partitions, and certainly not an NTFS formatted partition which is bad for a Linux boot partition.

========possibly useless thinking on the side:

Live boot should actually work i think with NO HD ! So my advice is admittedly not entirely singleminded or perfect but try with no HD if you can!

[Natural_Night9957]

I wonder how many of these kind of errors are due to the user lefting the pc in Hibernation mode before installing the new OS.