diff -Naur busybox.org/init/halt.c busybox/init/halt.c
--- busybox.org/init/halt.c	2013-05-11 19:30:43.000000000 -0400
+++ busybox/init/halt.c	2014-08-05 12:53:47.000000000 -0400
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@
 
 	/* Perform action. */
 	rc = 1;
-	if (!(flags & 4)) { /* no -f */
+	if (ENABLE_INIT && !(flags & 4)) { /* no -f */
 //TODO: I tend to think that signalling linuxrc is wrong
 // pity original author didn't comment on it...
 		if (ENABLE_FEATURE_INITRD) {