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Missing init in zorin OS 4
saqman2060
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I have a system with zorin OS 4 32bit installed on one of my 64bit system. Upon booting, I got an error message saying "init not found, try passing init= bootarg".
Not sure how that happen, but it appears the init file has been corrupted or removed. When you get an error like this, what are the methods of replacing an init file?
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saqman2060 wrote:I have a system with zorin OS 4 32bit installed on one of my 64bit system. Upon booting, I got an error message saying "init not found, try passing init= bootarg".
Not sure how that happen, but it appears the init file has been corrupted or removed. When you get an error like this, what are the methods of replacing an init file?
Boot into a livecd, chroot to the proper partition and install a kernel (either own compilation or from the distro's repos)
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saqman2060 wrote:I have a system with zorin OS 4 32bit installed on one of my 64bit system. Upon booting, I got an error message saying "init not found, try passing init= bootarg".
Not sure how that happen, but it appears the init file has been corrupted or removed. When you get an error like this, what are the methods of replacing an init file?0 -
Thanks for the advice. I will give that a try.0
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You can always boot into the system through the chroot environment and attempt to build a new initrd file with mkinitrd, but re-installing the kernel is the safest way to reinstate the file.0
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Well I'll try your method first matt then, if that fails, I'll reinstall the kernel...ug0
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Ok I fixed the problem but I didn't have to install the kernel. What I did was run the liveCD, added the system partition to fstab, then in the command line, ran # sudo fsck /dev/sda1. The program cleaned some system blocks, and I was able to mount the partition in the the /media folder. I checked the folder and all the partitions system folders were available.
The crazy thing is, this was my first attempt at recovering a linux system...weird0
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