I downloaded and burned the Kubuntu 14.10 amd64 iso. My laptop was running Kubuntu 14.04 amd64; it is a 4-year-old Dell Studio 17. When booting from the DVD, there is a kernel panic, unable to mount root VFS, I don't think the kernel can find the image to load on the disk to bootstrap. Same thing happens when selecting the recovery option from Grub. What's the deal?
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As you are booting from a DVD, the DVD itself may either be damaged or corrupted, or the .iso
file you downloaded corrupted when downloading. Try re-downloading it and burning it to another disk at a lower speed, and if possible, enable disk verification in your disk burner application's settings. This method should produce a working bootable disk.