Nevermind. I had neglected to check the SHA256 sum and so I went back and did that check on the 2 ISO's that I had previously downloaded. Turns out the one I was trying to install on my main machine was corrupted.
So I disabled the corrupted drive and installed 16.04 on a second HDD so that it could control the computer. I then mounted the corrupted drive and did a slow zero's format on it from Disks and/or Gparted (can't quite recall which now). I then reinstalled the good image of UbuntuStudio 16.04 on my main drive. We're up and running! Thanks for your help. BruSkald -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575274 Title: System Crash during 16.04 Upgrade from 14.04 Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I was upgrading 2 machines from Trusty to Xenial. I had success on my laptop...but had a system crash on my main machine running Ubuntu- Studio 14.04. I have tried creating LIVE-USB's to reboot and repair the install...but to no avail. No matter what I do I arrive at the same "Call Trace" and "end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exit code=0x00007f00" message. The system freezes at that point and there is absolutely no forward movement from there. HELP! My machine is completely crashed...I believe this is Ubuntu's answer to the "Windows Blue Screen of Death". Please advise how I can repair my Ubuntu Studio 16.04 installation. Thanks. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1575274/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
