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		kmm 86 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Booting Linux in QEMU and Writing PID 1 in Go to I... That's actually a message from the (Arch) initramfs[1], in case it can't mount the root filesystem or find an init to hand off to. The kernel has a different error message: "No working init found. Try passing init= option to kernel."[2] 1: https://github.com/archlinux/mkinitcpio/blob/2dc9e12814aafcc... 2: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/d358e5254674b70f34c84...

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