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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
