Kernel panic- not syncing: No working init found

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Just updated my workstation and gateway for an issue to occur. When I launch them both, the gateway launches fine but the workstation gives me the following error after a brief period. The version for both is 17.1.1.5 not sure what’s happening. I also have the logs for the VM. I hope this can be fixed, I’m new to whonix so it’s possible I blew it up. Please help if possible!

[    7.644726] Initramfs unpacking failed: junk at the end of compressed archive
[    7.767220] Failed to execute /init (error -2)
[    7.767316] Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel. See Linux Documentation/admin-guide/init.rst for guidance.
[    7.767363] CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.1.0-28-amd64 #1  Debian 6.1.119-1
[    7.767389] Hardware name: innotek GmbH VirtualBox/VirtualBox, BIOS VirtualBox 12/01/2006
[    7.767414] Call Trace:
[    7.767445]  <TASK>
[    7.767469]  dump_stack_lvl+0x44/0x5c
[    7.767502]  panic+0x118/0x2f4
[    7.767527]  ? rest_init+0x4d/0xd0
[    7.767551]  kernel_init+0x122/0x130
[    7.767574]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
[    7.767601]  </TASK>
[    7.768542] Kernel Offset: 0x1dc00000 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation range: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffffbfffffff)
[    7.768570] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel. See Linux Documentation/admin-guide/init.rst for guidance. ]---
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easy:

hard:

(Whonix is based on Kicksecure.)

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okay, yes i understand what im supposed to do here but how would I accomplish it? I cannot open any sort of terminal to input any of the required commands to try and fix this, it happens on launch.

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Some options include:

Also appliable:

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I managed to end up with the chroot portion and tried with Arch and debian. Now, I am running into the issue of having no connection, so I am unable to proceed with the next steps. Is there an easy fix to this?

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No.

If you want networking for custom operating systems, then the following wiki page is appliable:

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