[SOLVED]Will not boot: "/sbin/init does not exist...

There is another thread about this, but as of today (26-07-2013) it is 3 years old and Arch no longer uses sysvinit.
(https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=93197)
I tried re-installing systemd-sysvcompat, as that now handles /sbin/init, no luck.
Is there some skeleton init file I could copy/regenerate from somewhere?
NOTE: This is a new installation. Haven't booted cleanly yet
Last edited by drasticraft (2013-07-28 17:30:48)

Any chance you have more than one drive attached? There are no guarantees as to which drive is mapped to sda and which is mapped to sdb.
If not that, from the shell into which you get dumped, go look around and see that /sbin is a link to /usr/bin.
You might also add an option to point at your init. (/usr/bin/init) It will make your option line look like:
options root=/dev/sda1 ro init=/usr/bin/init
Also, ensure that /usr/bin/init is linked to systemd. :
/sbin/init -> ../lib/systemd/systemd
I'll still wager that the filesystem upgrade went awry.

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

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.
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Last edited by heavytull (2014-03-06 21:24:48)

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.
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[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.

Root device mounted successfully, but /sbin/init does not exist ???

I'm having the issue where when I boot after doing a fresh install, it gives me:
ERROR: Root device mounted successfully, but /sbin/init does not exist
Bailing out, you are on your own. Good luck
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[rootfs /]#
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This looks fine to me, but when /dev/sda1 is mounted at /new_root, none of the other devices are mounted....
I don't know if this is what's causing the problem since /etc, and /usr are on separate partitions from root, but
this would be the first time I get a problem dividing things this way (on ubuntu, mint, fedora, et cetera).
So I tried:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 3#p1283343
I get "* is owned by filesystem 2013.05-2" for all three dirs from step three.
None of the other steps have any effect....
I also tried:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=172943
My /dev/sda1 mounts to new_root, so I don't think I'm having his problem.
And:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=166423
I reinstalled systemd-sysvcompat, and I'm sure that's not my problem.
Interestingly enough, /usr/lib/systemd/systemd is an elf file on my target hard disk.
Is this an outdated issue or something? Or should /usr/lib/systemd/systemd be a text file?
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WorMzy wrote:Oh, and /usr/lib/systemd/systemd is supposed to be an ELF binary. Not sure why you think it should be a text file.
I saw another thread saying that adding an entry there would help. I think it was "init=<something>".
WonderWoofy wrote:A separate /etc is not supported whatsoever. There needs to be initial access to a few things there. I'm sure it could be made to work with some initramfs hackery. But it is neither supported or wise to do so IMO.
I'll not do the separate partitions then. Thanks. I'll check back if it works/doesn't-works.

[SOLVED] /sbin/init does not exist error on boot

Hi all,
Let me first say that Arch Linux is a great distribution and I couldn't be more happier with it! Thanks to everyone who is involved in building it.
However, as the subject line suggests, I have run into a problem. I have tried every trick in my book and every suggestion on Google but the problem still persists.
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Last edited by clalbus (2013-02-10 20:59:42)

OK, now that I have marked the __active subvolume as default I can boot (using EFI shell) without using the rootflags=subvol=__active kernel parameter.
However, rEFInd boot loader is still not working (with or without rootflags=subvol=__active). Unfortunately I don't see any error messages as the system hangs at rEFInd boot screen.
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