Cannot execute init (error 8)

If we hit the error

Cannot execute init (error 8)



while booting a freshely compiled kernel, then the possible reason could be that we have forgotten to enable the confiog option

CONFIG_BINFMT_SCRIPT

Open the .config file, search for the above option and if it is set to "n" or is not set then change it to

CONFIG_BINFMT_SCRIPT=y

Save the file, and recompile the kernel. The above error should not appear now.