/sbin/init does not exist, systemd nowhere to be found

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Hi all,

I was working with some systemd services and I decided to restart, but when I booted up again, I got the error “Root device mounted successfully, but /sbin/init does not exist. Bailing out, you are on your own. Good luck. sh: can’t access tty; job control turned off”.
Any help would be appreciated.

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/sbin/init is a link to systemd:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 8. Aug 09:04 /sbin/init -> ../lib/systemd/systemd

I suggest you boot with a live CD, chroot into your environment and set this link manually. Lets see if that already helps. You probably do not even need to do a chroot. Just mount your root partition and set the link.

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Do you happen to have /usr on a separate filesystem? If so, then you need to rebuild your initramfs with the following hooks…

HOOKS=(base systemd autodetect modconf block keyboard sd-vconsole filesystems shutdown)
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try for boot , edit on Grub

add after linux
a space then init=/usr/lib/system/systemd
F10

if not system is borked

save your data /home before and re installs

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