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DayOldPorridge

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Registered: 2008-02-25

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"kinit: init not found!" error when trying to boot.

This is the guide I followed: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fas … nux_System

I had tried this a while back but eventually gave up, so this is my second try at installing Arch with no CDs.

Here's my GRUB boot entry:

title ArchCD
kernel (hd0,1)/isolinux/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 BOOTMEDIA=cd ramdisk_size=100000
initrd (hd0,1)/isolinux/initrd.img
boot

The error I keep getting is, as I put in the subject, "kinit: init not found!", followed by a kernel panic of some sort.

Last edited by DayOldPorridge (2008-05-02 01:58:48)

keratos

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Registered: 2008-04-27

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Re: "kinit: init not found!" error when trying to boot.

at the GRUB menu, before booting, can you issue the command (then post ouput here):

find /isolinux/vmlinuz

DayOldPorridge

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Re: "kinit: init not found!" error when trying to boot.

The output is:

hd(0,1)

But it seems as if it does find it at first, because it takes a good minute or two of scrolling text before that happens; it doesn't just happen right after I boot it.

keratos

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Re: "kinit: init not found!" error when trying to boot.

yes, scrolling text is normal in linux unless using a splashboot (google usplash).

I am a bit confused here...

Are you trying to boot a CDROM and its failing? Your GRUB entry is set to boot from CD? Do you have a linux install or have you not got that far?

You need to post the errors being displayed before the kinit error?

My question above was erroenous - I meant to ask if you had a bootable partition but I noted your booting from CD.

DayOldPorridge

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Re: "kinit: init not found!" error when trying to boot.

Well, I'm trying to boot directly off the partition, but what I've done is basically copy and paste what the Arch wiki install manual said to put into the GRUB menu.lst (of course writing in the correct partition numbers and all).  Perhaps I should try "fromiso=" instead.

And perhaps my last post was a bit ambiguous; I meant to say that if it had failed to locate /isolinux/vmlinuz, it would have immediately failed to boot and not gone through loading everything first, I think.

Last edited by DayOldPorridge (2008-05-08 04:15:48)

keratos

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Re: "kinit: init not found!" error when trying to boot.

Ah-Ha

Are you saying you want to copy the CDROM boot media to HDD and install from there?? Because its quicker? If so then we need to tweak your setup. If not, then I cannot help you because I dont know what the heck you're trying to do.

phrakture

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Re: "kinit: init not found!" error when trying to boot.

booting isolinux via grub seems sketchy at best.

But, I can tell you this (if it helps). "init not found" means that it cannot find /bin/init on the root filesystem. This usually means that it can't MOUNT the root filesystem (the CD itself).

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keratos

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Re: "kinit: init not found!" error when trying to boot.

booting isolinux via grub seems sketchy at best.

But, I can tell you this (if it helps). "init not found" means that it cannot find /bin/init on the root filesystem. This usually means that it can't MOUNT the root filesystem (the CD itself).

or mount the HDD partition which is the root fs image of the CD on the HDD ,

if thats what he is attempting to do ... i.e. boot CD image from HDD.

Last edited by keratos (2008-05-08 21:39:13)