yes i got init to run Crostini and crouton have never done this

[TomTravis]

n chroot outstanding, jammy debootsrap(no crouton) chroot development now to systemd started
systemd --user still need work it not running the systemd snap is still broken they a mutiuser targets
I move things around and some things start other do not . this startup and run is not documented to the public the systemd git was forked

[TomTravis]

yes Crostini does not start PID 1 you have to create a root account and start it, you are very controlled in what you can do and run