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Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:25:31 +0200
From: "Michal Piotrowski" <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
To: g3vbv@blueyonder.co.uk
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc1-git3 init failure
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Hi Sid,

On 29/07/07, Sid Boyce <g3vbv@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>  > Boot failure on x86_64 (64X2), says it can't find init, specifically
>  > /init. 2.6.23-rc1-git1 boots and runs successfully. I haven't tried
>  > -git2. I shall reboot on 2.6.23-rc1-git3 tomorrow and record the full
>  > message.
>  > Strings from vmlinux in both the above:-
>  >
>  > Kernel alive
>  > /dev/console
>  > <4>Warning: unable to open an initial console.
>  > <4>Failed to execute %s
>  > <4>Failed to execute %s.  Attempting defaults...
>  > /sbin/init
>  > /etc/init
>  > /bin/init
>  > /bin/sh
>  > No init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel.
>  >
>  > Tried option "init=/sbin/init" and got the same failure.
>  > Regards
>  > Sid.
>
> I see the sam problem with 2.6.23-rc1-git5.
>
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 236k freed
> failed to execute /init
> kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to
> kernel
>
> Copying /sbin/init to / results in the same error.
> openSUSE 10.3Alpha6plus
> # rpm -qf /sbin/init
> sysvinit-2.86-90

Please read chapter 4.1 and 4.5
http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/handbook/handbook-en-0.3-rc1.pdf

It should be very simple

git-bisect start
git-bisect bad
git-bisect good 0de085bb474f64e4fdb2f1ff3268590792648c7b

and so on and so forth

>
> Regards
> Sid.

Regards,
Michal

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