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I formatted all the partitions in my computer to a single ext4 partition and did a fresh installation of Ubuntu 13.04. I'm getting:

Failed to execute /init
Kernel panic - not syncing: no init found. Try passing init=option to kernel.

Even on clean reinstall the issue persist. Booting from recovery mode leads to same error, so not able to reach the terminal. But able to boot from Live CD.

Any help much appreciated.

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In my case, the solution to this turned out to be disabling Secure Boot in the BIOS. Before doing this, I was not able to boot from my hard drive or from a Live DVD. However, I could boot from a live USB, so my symptoms were slightly different. Various distros each behaved a little differently, but none would fully boot and no solutions others had posted worked for me. This was a Lenovo x201 laptop formerly running Windows 7.

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