I passed init=/mylinuxrc to the kernel on the command line.  The kernel
silently dropped down to exec /sbin/init.  It turned out that /mylinuxrc
had improper permissions.  Without any warning message from the kernel that
something was wrong it took awhile to find the issue.  The patch below adds
a warning.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
         * The Bourne shell can be used instead of init if we are 
         * trying to recover a really broken machine.
         */
-
-       if (execute_command)
+       if (execute_command) {
                run_init_process(execute_command);
-
+               printk(KERN_WARNING "Failed to execute %s.  Attempting "
+                                       "defaults...\n", execute_command);
+       }
        run_init_process("/sbin/init");
        run_init_process("/etc/init");
        run_init_process("/bin/init");