On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 4:58 PM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Guys, > > Updating an x86_64 box, I ran into an error I've never seen before with the > 3.4.3-1 kernel. It hard-locks at the very start of boot with the keyboard lights > flashing. Basically the first line of the boot says: > > Decompressing Linux... Parsing ELF... done. > Booting the kernel. > [ 0.480811] Initramfs unpacking failed: uncompression error > [ -.547776] Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= > option to kernel. See Linux Documentation/init.txt for guidance. > > I literally took a picture of the screen just in case it is of any help: > > [155k] > http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/ss/arch/kernel343-fail2boot.jpg > > Where to start? Boot from an install disk, chroot, and try kernel reinstall? > What say the experts? Looks like a bad ramdisk. Get it booted somehow (fallback image might even work) and run mkinitcpio -p linux by hand.
