Re: exec: 426: chroot: not found

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Lourens Steenkamp <lourens@dorje.co.za> writes:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> My first upgrade on my pure-64 has just bitten the dust.
> I did not change the kernel which was installed in December 2004.
>
> ran "apt-get update"
> Using Synaptic, I did the update in batches, upgrading the things that
> I use most first. The package that failed was "adduser", while trying to
> remove some files and directories that did not exist. I re-ran the
> update and it complained that there were files that could not be found
> (in the archive).
> Close Synaptic and could not run anything, including shutdown.
>
> At reboot:
> ... my disks get mounted ...
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
> exec: 426: chroot: not found
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
>
> Google was not my friend here and I cannot find this error in the
> archives.
>
> Your help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks

You are most likely mounting the wrong disk or partition.

MfG
        Goswin