it shows:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 265848 يول 18  2014 /sbin/init

2016-04-03 20:49 GMT+01:00 Marwa Hamza <marwahamza63@gmail.com>:

the output of this command  > ./i386-softmmu/qemu-system-i386 -M pc -kernel
> /home/marwa/Bureau/lauterbach/i386_qemu/linux-4.1.18/arch/i386/boot/bzImage
> -initrd /home/marwa/Bureau/lauterbach/i386_qemu/busybox-1.21.0/rootfs.img.gz
> -append “root=/dev/ram rdinit=/sbin/init”
>

starting init :/sbin/init exists but couldn't execute it (error -8)

starting init : /bin/sh exists but couldn't execute it (error -8)

kernel panic not syncing : no working init found , try passing init= option to kernel

2016-04-03 19:38 GMT+01:00 Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>:

On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Marwa Hamza <marwahamza63@gmail.com> wrote:

> ./i386-softmmu/qemu-system-i386 -M pc -kernel
> /home/marwa/Bureau/lauterbach/i386_qemu/linux-4.1.18/arch/i386/boot/bzImage
> -initrd /home/marwa/Bureau/lauterbach/i386_qemu/busybox-1.21.0/rootfs.img.gz
> -append “root=/dev/ram rdinit=/sbin/init”
>

Can you post the output when you run this command? In particular, does
the /sbin/init exist in the rootfs?

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Pranith