[arch-general] Upgrade finish in a "Kernel Panic - not syncing : no init found"

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On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:33:53 +0100
Dany De Bontridder <dany118 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Thomas Bächler
> <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > Am 22.03.2013 23:00, schrieb Dany De Bontridder:
> >> Today,  everything works fine and I decide to keep my PC
> >> up-to-date, so I run pacman -Syu and I get a message when trying
> >> to boot
> >>
> >>  *** Kernel Panic - not syncing : No init found. ***
> >
I have actually seen that self same message myself  here  when i had a
dying Hard Drive ..



> > That is actually an impossible error message. It is only printed
> > when 1) no initramfs or an invalid initramfs is attached
> >  2) the kernel manages to mount the root partition
> >  3) no init binary is found


Pete .


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