WHY does the kernel hang when init dies?

David Woodhouse (David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com)
Mon, 05 Oct 1998 12:21:57 +0100

I'm watching a 2Gb partition fscking fsck because the kernel wouldn't let me
use SysRq to sync and unmount after init died while booting.

Could I repeat the question I asked some time ago - why was the established
behaviour changed?

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