2009-04-08 16:26:34 UTC
I think your searching skills are probably fine. The problem is that there are not a whole lot of people out there who try to do what we are doing, so there's not a lot of useful information to be found. Hopefully I can give you some insights that might help.
In my experience whenever I see "attempted to kill init" here's what I would check...
* Does /sbin/init actually exist?
* Are all the libraries required by init also installed on the system?
* Does init have the proper permissions?
* Can you log in using /bin/sh as init? (e.g. from the grub prompt do something like: 'kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz init=/bin/sh')
You may also want to compile sysvinit and bash (sh) as statically-linked.
You can do this with make CC="gcc -march=i586" STATIC="-static" when building sysvinit and the --enable-static-link option when configuring your minimal bash.
With these two programs built as static-linked you will almost always come up to a shell prompt.
