init: illegal runlevel (null)

[Konstantin Svist]

On 12/17/2009 08:41 AM, Luca wrote:
> #!/bin/bash
> cd /tmp
> mkdir newrootfs
> mount rootfs.img newrootfs
> cd newrootfs
> mkdir oldrootfs
> pivot_root . oldrootfs
> exec chroot . sh -c 'exec /sbin/init' <dev/console >dev/console 2>&1
>
> I can see the new root is rootfs, but still there is something not 
> working. When I run the script I get the message
>
> init: illegal runlevel (null)
>

It looks like you think /sbin/init does something other than what it 
really does.
http://www.fedorafaq.org/basics/#runlevel