[SOLVED] after upgrade : /sbin/init does not exist. Bailing out, ...

Question

hi, after having upgraded today my archlinux, I cannot boot it. I get the following message : "ERROR: Root device mounted successfully, but /sbin/init does not exist. Bailing out, you are on you own. Good luck."
The last time the system was upgraded was in june 2013, before the "Binaries move to /usr/bin requiring update intervention" advisory (https://www.archlinux.org/news/binaries … ervention/). So before upgrading I followed the instructions given in this article and was able to upgrade. But after reboot I got the error message I'm reporting here.
Here is a copy  of the config I'm using to boot arch in grub:
menuentry "Archlinux" {
        load_video
        set gfxpayload=keep
        insmod gzio
        insmod part_msdos
        insmod ext2
        set root='hd0,msdos7'
        echo 'Loading of Archlinux, kernel v.3.xx.xx ...'
        linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/sda7 ro
        initrd /boot/initramfs-linux.img
Last edited by heavytull (2014-03-06 21:24:48)

Answer 1

karol wrote:
There have been quite a few changes since you last updated e.g. we're using 'rw' instead of 'ro'. Try
linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/sda7 rw init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd
It's now much better. But a lot of errors are reported and the system hangs, but still rebootable with Ctrl + Alt + Del.
Here are the error messages:
[FAILED] Failed to mount Configuration File System.
See 'systemctl status sys-kernel-config.mount' for details.
[FAILED] Failed to mount Huge Pages File System.
See 'systemctl status dev-hugepages.mount' for details.
[FAILED] Failed to mount POSIX Message Queue File System.
See 'systemctl status dev-mqueue.mount' for details.
[FAILED] Failed to mount Temporary Directory.
See 'systemctl status tmp.mount' for details.
[FAILED] Failed to start Remount Root and Kernel File System.
See 'systemctl status systemd-remount-fs.service' for details.