[SOLVED] init not found

BCarey · 06-09-2017, 11:52 AM

Hi all,

I'm trying to upgrade a laptop from 14.0 to 14.1. Usually when I do this I upgrade the kernel first and then use slackpkg for the rest. I'm having a problem booting the kernel though. It panics with couldn't find the init, although I have run mkinitrd and rerun lilo. Here's what I've used for mkinitrd:

Code:

mkinitrd -c -k 3.10.17-smp -f ext4 -r /dev/hi3cryptvg/root -m usbhid:ehci-hcd:mbcache:jbd2:ext4 -C /dev/sda6:/dev/sda1 -L -u -o /boot/initrd.3.10.17.gz

and it runs without error. My lilo.conf looks like this:

Code:

append=" vt.default_utf8=0"
boot = /dev/sda
compact

# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /boot/vmlinuz-generic-3.2.29
  root = /dev/hi3cryptvg/root
  initrd = /boot/initrd.gz
  label = Linux
  append="resume=/dev/hi3cryptvg/swap"
  read-only
image = /boot/vmlinuz-generic-smp-3.10.17-smp
  root = /dev/hi3cryptvg/root
  initrd = /boot/initrd.3.10.17.gz
  label = 3.10.17
  append="resume=/dev/hi3cryptvg/swap"
  read-only
# Linux bootable partition config ends

and lilo runs without error.

Does anyone have suggestions for me?
Thanks,
Brian

55020 · 06-09-2017, 02:07 PM

The old kernel is 64 bit, but your new kernel is 32 bit. That's not a recipe for success.

rkelsen · 06-09-2017, 06:40 PM

As an extension to the answer above, your /sbin/init binary is most likely the 64 bit version.

BCarey · 06-09-2017, 07:22 PM

Thanks so much.

Brian