[Archiso] /sbin/init does not exist

thenn42 · 2010-12-20 11:01:34

Hello,
I am trying to make a live cd using Archiso. I downloaded it from git and tried to make the live cd with the help of the wiki and an example from the git repo.
But I can't get the live cd to boot:

ERROR: Root device mounted successfully, but /sbin/init does not exist.
Bailling out, you are on your own, Good luck.

I have no idea where the error might come from.
Here is the Makefile and the files I used:
link

What could it be? Thanks for any help.

Neo_The_User · 2011-01-24 23:18:31

Same here.

Here are ALL my instructions...

http://code.google.com/p/neo-technical/ … ashromlive

Makefile: http://neo-technical.googlecode.com/svn … d/Makefile

edit: Same result with IDE CD-ROM, QEMU 0.13.0, and from USB stick.

AMD 785 Chipset (GIGABYTE/GA-MA785GM-US2H) the rest of my PC specs are in my sig.

edit 2: One last thing, in the ramfs prompt, i typed in "ls /sbin' and init wasnt in there. I ran pacman -Ql | grep sbin/init and added sysvinit to packages.list and STILL same problem..... Help us please!

Last edited by Neo_The_User (2011-01-24 23:35:28)

Neo_The_User · 2011-02-01 20:32:15

Guys this is still broken. If this isn't going to be fixed due to laziness and lack of effort, I'll be happy making my own stupid fork that actually works and host it on my google code page, since the developers obviously don't care. I don't dig into the source of archiso a lot so I can't pinpoint exactly what is wrong, but please fix this, and save somebody else the time..

ying · 2011-02-01 21:14:09

Hmm. I just finished my livecd with archiso. No problems here. But I had once the same error, when I used the lzma compression. Use gzip.

djgera · 2011-02-02 01:35:24

Neo_The_User wrote:

Guys this is still broken. If this isn't going to be fixed due to laziness and lack of effort, I'll be happy making my own stupid fork that actually works and host it on my google code page, since the developers obviously don't care. I don't dig into the source of archiso a lot so I can't pinpoint exactly what is wrong, but please fix this, and save somebody else the time..

Hello,

1) Official syslinux-iso profile works as expected.
2) Wiki page is out-dated. See my comments about "baseline profile" [#1] in Talk. (there is a warning about this before Makefile).

Quoting your Makefile:

# INSTALL_DIR -> max 8 chars.
INSTALL_DIR=flashrom-install

"flashrom-install" 16 chars

COMPRESS=lzma

Only gzip and lzo is supported at this moment.
squashfs xz needs 2.6.38 (unreleased) lzma (unknow)

mkinitcpio -c ./mkinitcpio.conf -b $(WORKDIR)/root-image -k `uname -r` -g $@

`uname -r` Not a good idea if you are running different kernel name that on destination.

Apart of these things, there are more issues in your Makefile that will not work with current archiso.git. (See "baseline profile" [#1] for reference, or official syslinux-iso profile).

[#1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ta … 1218.5D.29

Last edited by djgera (2011-02-02 03:58:43)

Neo_The_User · 2011-02-03 19:09:02

Ah! There we go! Changed compression from LZMA to GZIP or LZO, works fine. Ahhh much much better! Yes!!!

tomk · 2011-02-03 22:59:15

Neo_The_User - a warning. Your tone and attitude towards the Arch developer team, as expressed in post #3 above, is completely unacceptable in this forum. You will be permanently banned if you exhibit this kind of behaviour again.

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#1 2010-12-20 11:01:34

[Archiso] /sbin/init does not exist

#2 2011-01-24 23:18:31

Re: [Archiso] /sbin/init does not exist

#3 2011-02-01 20:32:15

Re: [Archiso] /sbin/init does not exist

#4 2011-02-01 21:14:09

Re: [Archiso] /sbin/init does not exist

#5 2011-02-02 01:35:24

Re: [Archiso] /sbin/init does not exist

#6 2011-02-03 19:09:02

Re: [Archiso] /sbin/init does not exist

#7 2011-02-03 22:59:15

Re: [Archiso] /sbin/init does not exist

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