linux-kernel - Re: Q: linux failed to execute /init?

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Message-ID: <a72f6a3c0801250639i4a7858eem415594f5663a9c7e@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:39:17 +0000
From:	"Jack Harvard" <jack.harvard@...glemail.com>
To:	"Jan Engelhardt" <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Q: linux failed to execute /init?

On Jan 25, 2008 2:27 PM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de> wrote:
>
>
> On Jan 25 2008 13:40, Jack Harvard wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm trying to boot Linux, but the /init process failed. Here is the
> >info:
> >
> >=FF<6>/init exit code: -14
> >/init exit code: -14
> ><4>Failed to execute /init
> >Failed to execute /init
> > <6>/sbin/init exit code: -14
> >
> >Just wondering what do those different exit codes mean?
>
> asm-generic/errno-base.h:#define EFAULT 14 /* Bad address */
>

Also, before the init process hung up and printed out /init exit code:
-14, it printed out the following symbol
ÿ
Which doesn't make any sense to me, just wondering what could have
caused this? it's unlikely due to baud rate and printed out something
unreadable.
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