I finally tracked this down. Somehow my /bin/sh was deleted 
(/etc/rc.sysinit's shebang is /bin/sh), prolly during one of my chroots 
on and off the image, i must have trashed my own real /bin/sh.

Its fixed now, but that was just an annoying experience! :(

Essien

Essien Ita Essien wrote:
> I'm not sure what happened, but i've been learning about LIVE CD images, 
> etc on my box. Ofcourse, not touching my main install, but creating the 
> image as a loop back image, and mounting it via an initrd i created. 
> suddenly, on one of the reboots back to my main system, I got the error:
> 
> INIT: Cannot execute /etc/rc.sysinit
> 
> Trying to restart in Single user mode, and i get the same error for 
> rc.Single.
> 
> I can boot up via install Cd, chroot and get to my install, but looking 
> around, exe perms are set, and i have no idea why the fsck INIT would 
> not be able to run /etc/rc.sysinit
> 
> anyone have any pointers? I'm on kernel26-scsi-2.6.12
> 
> scratching my beard,
> 
> Essien
> 
> 
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