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I had an older pi (B+ model) running Raspbian Jesse and ran into a corruption issue, and finally picked it back up to replace the SD Card and I have been having issues installing Raspbian Stretch with Desktop. Originally I wrote the img file to the SD Card using Etcher and later installed it via Noobs, but each time it got hung up on different error messages. Mainly:

---[end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs unknown-block(179,7)
random: crng init done

After trying this 4-5 times I transitioned to Raspbian Stretch Lite, and this installed successfully with no problem. After this was successful I tried with Desktop again, but it got hung up on the same error message again. Can anybody help explain:

---[end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs unknown-
block(179,7)
random: crng init done

What is this error message and is there any way I can correct it?

NOTE: I am using the pi with a connected monitor & keyboard. I cannot ssh into the pi because the ip address isn't being assigned. I am using an 8GB Micro SD Card.

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The error ---[end Kechallengernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs unknown-block(179,7) random: crng init done

is often mentioned when a corrupt image have been transferred to a SD card or when a SD card is faulty or kernel bugs.

I have replaced a corrupt SD card due to this cause and that solved my challenge.

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Some possibilities are:

  1. Your SD card is corrupted–try another one.
  2. Your image was corrupted when you downloaded it.
  3. Your kernel has problems.
  4. Other problems related to formatting your SD card. Sometimes you have to go to sdcard.org and download software to format your SD card in the best way posible.
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