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Document using boot -a and /rescue/init if the system fails to boot with 

"init: not found".
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.\" $NetBSD: rescue.8,v 1.2 2008/10/20 06:26:47 lukem Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: rescue.8,v 1.3 2008/10/20 06:42:53 lukem Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2003 Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org>
.\" Copyright (c) 2003 Simon L. Nielsen <simon@FreeBSD.org>
@ -57,6 +57,19 @@ In particular, they do not have full use of the locale,
.Xr pam 3 ,
and nsswitch libraries.
.Pp
If your system fails to boot, and it shows an error message similar to:
.Pp
.Dl "init: not found"
.Pp
try booting the system with the boot flag
.Dq Fl a
and supplying
.Pa /rescue/init ,
which is the
.Nm
.Xr init 8 ,
as the init path.
.Pp
If your system fails to boot, and it shows a prompt similar to:
.Pp
.Dl "Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: "