initramfs-tools already depends busybox-initramfs. What's missing is the hook to symlink bin/chroot to busybox in the initrd. Supporting /sbin/init being a symlink was not fixed for all cases in bug #1351295. There was only a readlink symlink added but the chroot call in the following line was missed. By coincidence the busybox-static hook installed a chroot symlink so it worked for most cases (busybox-static is a dependency of ubuntu-standard).
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to initramfs-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1421117 Title: fails to boot with "Attempted to kill init" in VMWare, absolute /sbin/init symlink does not work Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: My Ubuntu 15.04 VM (running under VMware) doesn't boot anymore after permanently switching to systemd. I've switched to systemd with "apt install systemd-sysv --purge" (it only purged the upstart package) and with the default "Ubuntu" entry the boot fails after about 2.5 sec with a kernel panic ("Attempted to kill init"). But it works when edit the grub entry (in the grub shell) and add "init=/lib/systemd/systemd". Attached is the serial output (with "debug" but no "init=" parameter). To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/1421117/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
