I'm extremely new to the Ubuntu community and I wanted to revive an old PC to have it connected to my TV for movies and such!

I installed Ubuntu on a USB stick so I can then boot into Ubuntu to see if everything is fine, and then have it installed, also replacing the old corrupted Windows 7 from before.

However, (trying to) boot into Ubuntu results in this:

BusyBox v1.22.1 (Ubuntu 1:1.22.0-15ubuntu1) built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands. (initramfs)

It drops boot into BusyBox/initramfs.

Typing the command exit results in this:

(initramfs) exit mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory mount: mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: No such file or directory /init: line 344: can't open /root/dev/console: no such file [ 116.146799] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000200 [ 116.146799] [ 116.146928] CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 4.15.0-45-generic #48~16.04.1-Ubuntu [ 116.147032] Hardware name: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. G31M-ES2L/G31M-ES2L, BIOS FF 10/13/2009 [ 116.147149] Call Trace: [ 116.147198] dump_stack+0x58/0x81 [ 116.147250] panic+0x94/0x1e6 [ 116.147296] do_exit+0xa1c/0xa20 [ 116.147347] do_group_exit+0x35/0x90 [ 116.147402] SyS_exit_group+0x16/0x20 [ 116.147457] do_fast_syscall_32+0x7f/0x1d0 [ 116.147520] entry_SYSENTER_32+0x4e/0x7c [ 116.147577] EIP: 0xb7f57d05 [ 116.147620] EFLAGS: 00000296 CPU: 1 [ 116.147671] EAX: ffffffda EBX: 00000002 ECX: b7d9a700 EDX: 09d5b008 [ 116.147757] ESI: 00000000 EDI: 0805f30f EBP: 00000006 ESP: bfe8e508 [ 116.147842] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0033 SS: 007b [ 116.147929] Kernel Offset: 0x1d000000 from 0xc1000000 (relocation range: 0xc0000000-0xf7ffdfff) [ 116.148047] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000200 [ 116.148047]

and then it freezes.

Any and all help related to this would be appreciated.

Edit: The CPU is Intel x86 (i386) and I installed Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS i386 on the USB stick.