[arch-general] mkinitcpio alpha testing (WAS: Re: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] mkinitcpio 0.5.28-1)

[Evangelos Foutras]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Am 12.01.2010 15:07, schrieb Evangelos Foutras:
>> I gave it a try in a VM but it still fails with "Failed to execute
>> /init" like last time (http://i.imgur.com/h6xDu.png).
>>
>> The mkinicpio revision I tried was 54fd032, along with latest
>> mkinitcpio-busybox/trunk. The command used to generate the initramfs
>> image was `./mkinitcpio -g /boot/kernel26.img' from within the cloned
>> Git repository (switched to the kill-klibc branch).
>>
>> Let me know if I can help with further testing.
>
> I tried in VirtualBox on Arch i686 and it worked fine here (meaning I
> didn't have that particular problem).
>
> It then paniced due to problems in /init. Rev
> 93a8be170ff841dd345084b5f5eda66c76e6534f boots fine here on VirtualBox.
>
> I don't know why you get "Failed to execute /init". However, I installed
> mkinitcpio into the system and didn't try to use it from the git
> directly. We can check that problem later though.

That is great news. Nice work! :)