"/sbin/init does not exist" on boot

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11-30-2010, 01:07 AM	#16
JZL240I-U Senior Member Registered: Apr 2003 Location: Germany Distribution: openSuSE Tumbleweed-KDE, Mint 21, MX-21, Manjaro Posts: 4,629 Rep:	If you do a complete re-install I'd suggest you take the time and carefully plan the layout of your hard disk(s). Not only the partitions but also the file system(s \| mix) (ext4 / btrfs / xfs). Do you plan to encrypt anything? Even root? If so you need a small unencrypted /boot partition or additions to GRUB. And so forth... Good luck.

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