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#1 2016-04-10 05:21:38

serh
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Registered: 2011-08-16
Posts: 20

[Solved] Thinkpad 770 Init exists but couldn't execute it (error -26)

I recently became an owner of a Thinkpad 770, which rather ancient by modern standards and decided to give it a spark of fresh life by installing Arch on it.

The CD boots okay, but when I try to actually boot x86 Arch, it Kernel Panics with the topic title.
It tries /bin/init, /sbin/init and /bin/sh, failing with the same message for all of them.

I tried passing init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd, but it fails with error -2.

I have read about successful installations of Arch on this machine previously, but they mentioned no problems of the sort, presumably that was pre-systemd Arch.

Is there anything else I could try to get it working?

I am using a late 2015 ISO.

EDIT: I decided to run memtest on it after a recommendation on the mailing list and it looks like the DIMMs on it are dead. Marking as solved unless the new DIMMs that I ordered show the same result.

Last edited by serh (2016-04-11 22:11:45)

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