Simple Solution
Unplug any external hard drives you may have and restart!
Hoping
I hope Google takes care of this and makes this post number one. After installing Ubuntu 9.10 and working for a day with no problems I restarted (not the first time) and received the error;
Initrd is too big
That’s it, nothing else. So of course I went to Google on another machine to search for a solution that error. There are way too many of these errors for different versions of Linux so I trimmed the search by adding “Ubuntu 9.10” at the end of the search. Keeping the quotes that way tells G that this term carries the most weight.
Still nothing! I was down to the third and forth pages, and now this was taking too much time. Luckily I came across an old post, when Karmic Koala was still in beta, that was related to an external USB hard drive problem. I thought to myself, no way, but I tried anyway.
Unplug the external hard drive, restarted perfect!
I am not sure why, but now I have to unplug my hard drive to restart my computer. I can deal with that, but it’s weird that this just started and it didn’t happen yesterday.
Note: I have tested for hardware problems and there were none.
If anyone knows has a better solution, please let me know.
Hi Jim
Came over from John Hoff’s site.
I notice that you comment a lot over there and last visited your site when it was under construction.
Site is looking good… nice clean design and simple colours.
Hi Keith,
Please forgive me for taking so long to reply. I have been super busy, but anyway … Thanks! That was nice to say.. I am still pretty busy, but I will add you to my RSS and eventually stop on by..
Thanks again,