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		wibbily 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Booting Linux in QEMU and Writing PID 1 in Go to I... The kernel even has a special error message for you when it happens: > Bailing out, you are on your own. Good luck. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/96720

kmm 3 months ago [–]

That's actually a message from the (Arch) initramfs[1], in case it can't mount the root filesystem or find an init to hand off to.

The kernel has a different error message: "No working init found. Try passing init= option to kernel."[2]

1: https://github.com/archlinux/mkinitcpio/blob/2dc9e12814aafcc... 2: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/d358e5254674b70f34c84...

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