From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050416 Fedora/1.0.3-1.3.1 Firefox/1.0.3 Description of problem: Not a bug per se; but I didn't find any clues to solve this, only false leads (corrupt filesystem, selinux etc.), so hopefully this might help someone else in the right direction. I found it fairly non-obvious to start with! My machine crashed (I suspect a hardware fault). On reboot, the kernel was uncompressed and started to boot until: Switching to new root exec of init (/sbin/init) failed!!!: 2 umount /inited/dev failed: 2 kernel panic - not syncing: Attemped to kill init! Suspecting a bad initrd, I tried all the kernels I had installed, but all failed with the same error. Booting to rescue disk, I verifed the filesystems - ok. chroot /mnt/sysimage (where FC rescue mounts the filesystem) also failed with: chroot: cannot execute /bin/sh: No such file or directory but /mnt/sysimage/bin/sh existed, and could be run. The solution was to rebuild ld.so.cache, e.g. chroot /mnt/sysimage /sbin/ldconfig Following this I could successfully chroot, and init wouldn't fail on boot. Yeah, it hadn't occured to me that the "no such file" was probably refering to a shared library, not the executable itself; or indeed that init wouldn't be statically linked. I guess ld.so.cache was midway through rebuild when the machine went down? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Additional info:
Package name is now sysvinit in latest Fedora.