Why the Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation failed on z/VM with "Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found"
Issue
- The installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 failed on z/VM (s390x) with the following messages.
00: Uncompressing Linux...
00: Ok, booting the kernel.
... snip ...
0.638327| Unpacking initramfs...
3.137402| Initramfs unpacking failed: XZ-compressed data is corrupt
... snip ...
3.228569| Failed to execute /init
3.228603| Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. See Linux Documentation/init.txt for guidance.
3.228606| CPU: 3 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.10.0-862.el7.s390x #1
3.228608| 000000037ffcfd00 000000037ffcfd90 0000000000000002 0000000000000000
000000037ffcfe30 000000037ffcfda8 000000037ffcfda8 00000000006d7a5e
0000000000bd87c8 00000000008ad1a8 00000000008905dc 000000000000000b
000000037ffcfdf0 000000037ffcfd90 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
00000000006f31f8 0000000000116f68 000000037ffcfd90 000000037ffcfdf0
3.228620| Call Trace:
3.228621| (<0000000000116e44>| show_trace+0x104/0x158)
3.228625| <0000000000116f1c>| show_stack+0x84/0x100
3.228627| <00000000006d7846>| panic+0x106/0x2b0
3.228629| <00000000006cfdb0>| smp_rescan_cpus+0x0/0xc8
3.228631| <00000000006e6202>| kernel_thread_starter+0x6/0xc
3.228634| <00000000006e61fc>| kernel_thread_starter+0x0/0xc
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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