Am Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:29:01 +0530 schrieb Partha Chowdhury <partha@gmx.us>:
i just updated my system yesterday to kernel 2.6.32.2-2. I faced no problem. It is running as usual.After reading your mail, i looked in the pacman update log and found that only kernel and virtualbox were updated.Virtualbox is running fine also. and I don't use testing.
About the kernel panic message,"Failed to execute /init" it means either the init script in the initrd image is messed up and it is not set executable or the /sbin/init executable in your system is missing ! you have to uncompress the kernel23.img file and take a look at init.
I already did it and I couldn't find a problem. I also rebuilt kernel26.img several times with different settings in mkinitcpio.conf but this didn't help. I, btw., didn't change any settings when updating the kernel. Only updating the system to [testing] and rebuilding kernel26.img with the new mkinitcpio version from [testing] fixed the issue. So something has definitely been broken. Greetings, Heiko