ltsp thin client boot error

[Karl Hegbloom]

On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 18:48 -1000, John L Bartelt wrote:
> /init: 64: Syntax error: 0x
> [4294674.381000] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

That looks like an error in the initramfs/init program.  When that
script exits, the kernel panics, since the script is PID == 1.  I wonder
if there's a way to devise a fallback for this situation?

What if the script was running as PID == 2 under the auspices of some
kind of simple watchdog program, and if it ever exited, that watchdog
would then spawn an interactive shell for debugging the initramfs?  I
suppose it should have a newbie setting that does something else, like
prompt the user to boot from rescue media?  That's not quite right in
the LTSP client case...

Any way of finding out what version of mkinitramfs was used for that?

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Karl Hegbloom <hegbloom at pdx.edu>