Re: Jessie early boot failure: "/sbin/init exists but couldn't execute it (error -8)" (initrd corrupt?)

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Subject: Re: Jessie early boot failure: "/sbin/init exists but couldn't execute it (error -8)" (initrd corrupt?)
From: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 20:42:46 +0200
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Am 26.07.2014 20:32, schrieb Gregor Hoffleit:
> Obviously the error 8 is for ENOEXEC - Exec format error. I wonder what
> this could mean. The kernel is i386 (686-pae) and /sbin/init is as well
> i386.

What kind of hardware do you have? Does your processor support PAE?

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