Kernel panic no init found after installing Saucy

[Colin Law]

On 12 August 2013 05:45, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> Colin Law wrote:
>> I have installed from the Saucy 64 bit desktop daily image onto a
>> spare partition (sda3) on my PC and the install appeared to go without
>> problems.  However when I try to boot it I get a kernel panic - not
>> syncing: No init found.  Booting into 13.04 on the other partition is
>> still ok and from there I can see that that syslog does not exist so
>> I presume it is failing before it gets as far as starting loggin.
>> When I boot into recovery mode I can see the terminal o/p before the
>> failure.  The lines immediately before the failure are:
>>
>> Freeing unused kernel memory: 864k freed
>> Write protecting the kernel text: 6232k
>> Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 2500k
>> NX-protecting the kernel data 4008k
>> Failed to execute /init
>> Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found
>>
>> I can see that initrd.img exists and is a link to
>> boot/initrd.img-3.10.0.6-generic which is 17.1MB
>
> The message "no init found" probably means that there is no executable
> "init" in the initrd. You can check it with these commands in a
> terminal:
>
> mkdir /tmp/test-initrd
> cd /tmp/test-initrd
> cat /PATH/TO/YOUR/INITRD | gunzip | cpio -i
> ls -l init
>
> That should extract the contents of the initrd and show the "init"
> script (or at least that's what it does on my 12.04 machine).

OK, that works as expected and init contains a script that at first
glance looks identical to the one I get if I do the same for my 13.04
install.  All very odd.

Thanks for the help.

Colin

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