The kernel even has a special error message for you when it happens:
> Bailing out, you are on your own. Good luck.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/96720
That's actually a message from the (Arch) initramfs[1], in case it can't mount the root filesystem or find an init to hand off to.
The kernel has a different error message: "No working init found. Try passing init= option to kernel."[2]
1: https://github.com/archlinux/mkinitcpio/blob/2dc9e12814aafcc... 2: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/d358e5254674b70f34c84...
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That's actually a message from the (Arch) initramfs[1], in case it can't mount the root filesystem or find an init to hand off to.
The kernel has a different error message: "No working init found. Try passing init= option to kernel."[2]
1: https://github.com/archlinux/mkinitcpio/blob/2dc9e12814aafcc... 2: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/d358e5254674b70f34c84...