Control: tag -1 moreinfo Adam Borowski writes ("Bug#896878: Failed to execute /init (error -2) Kernel panic"): > On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 11:56:09AM +0300, Андрей Василишин wrote: > > [ 2.4575631 Failed to execute /init (error -2)
I think error -2 means ENOENT. > Are you sure there isn't something wrong with your hardware or perhaps your > filesystem? These versions are old enough that such a regression would have > been reported long time ago: 4.9.82-1+deb9u3 is stable-sec (and stable point > release) from 2018-03-03, 3.2.96-2 is oldoldstable-sec from 2017-12-10. I run sysvinit everywhere and I looked through a number of my systems. I wasn't able to find any that had exactly these kernels, but I can say that I have some systems with newer kernels as well as ones with older ones (although none that I could fine as old as 3.2). I have not seen any regressions that look like this. These kernels are all very different. I think as Adam suggests the most likely common factor and the most likely cause is indeed something wrong with your filesystem or its contents. Ian.