[parisc-linux] Init not found on 735/125?

[parisc-linux] Init not found on 735/125?

[Robert Liesenfeld]

I'm much closer to being able to install palinux on my 735/125...at the moment, the main problem
I'm having is this:

VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem) readonly.
Kernel panic: No init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel.

The NFS root fs is on my boot server, in /tftpboot/192.168.2.18.  The kernel successfully gets its
address (.2.18), and appears to mount the directory just fine...any ideas why it can't find
/sbin/init?

I've even tried passing init=/sbin/init on the kernel commandline (using palo/mklifimage).

-R


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Re: [parisc-linux] Init not found on 735/125?

[Matt Taggart]

Robert Liesenfeld writes...

> I'm much closer to being able to install palinux on my 735/125...at the momen
> t, the main problem
> I'm having is this:
[snip]

You could try using sash as init and see if you get further. I think this is 
the same problem as Richard mentioned in,

http://lists.parisc-linux.org/pipermail/parisc-linux/2001-March/012025.html

It's solved by a new glibc that's 16 byte aligned. See the message I just sent 
out about where to get the new glibc debs from.

-- 
Matt Taggart        Linux Development Lab
taggart@fc.hp.com   HP Linux Systems Operation

Re: [parisc-linux] Init not found on 735/125?

[Richard Hirst]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 08:06:51PM -0700, Matt Taggart wrote:
> 
> Robert Liesenfeld writes...
> 
> > I'm much closer to being able to install palinux on my 735/125...at the momen
> > t, the main problem
> > I'm having is this:
> [snip]
> 
> You could try using sash as init and see if you get further. I think this is 
> the same problem as Richard mentioned in,
> 
> http://lists.parisc-linux.org/pipermail/parisc-linux/2001-March/012025.html
> 
> It's solved by a new glibc that's 16 byte aligned. See the message I just sent 
> out about where to get the new glibc debs from.

No, different problem I think.  My system found init, but init then hung.
Robert is seeing:

> Kernel panic: No init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel.

Maybe his 735/125 is mounting the wrong dir, maybe his sbin/init doesn't
have execute access.  I'd check I could nfs mount that dir from some
other machine, and see sbin/init ok.  Using init=/bin/sash is a good
idea anyway, except I don't think sash is on the .iso, so you need
to build it or ask nicely ;)

Richard

Re: [parisc-linux] Init not found on 735/125?

[Robert Liesenfeld]

Downloaded and compiled sash...tried passing init=/bin/sash in the lifimage.  Still no luck...I'm
stumped.

-R
--- Richard Hirst <rhirst@linuxcare.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 06:10:32AM -0800, Robert Liesenfeld wrote:
> > Mounting from another machine was among the first things I tried; I can access /sbin/init on
> the
> > nfs mount point no problem.  Looks like I do not have a copy of sash...I do have the
> > cross-compilers installed, can someone point me to the sash source?
> 
> It lives under the userspace dir in cvs on puffin.external.hp.com.
> 
> Richard
> 


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Re: [parisc-linux] Init not found on 735/125?

[Richard Hirst]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 02:50:42AM -0800, Robert Liesenfeld wrote:
> Downloaded and compiled sash...tried passing init=/bin/sash in the lifimage.  Still no luck...I'm
> stumped.

Run tcpdump on the network to see what the parisc box is really trying
to access.  If you see it is reading the content of init or sash, then
you could add debug code to your kernel to see why it doesn't like
what it is reading.

Richard