[Buildroot] my /etc/init.d/rcS won't run

[Brian Beattie <beattie@beattie-home.net>]

On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 09:24 +0200, Hinko Kocevar wrote:
> Brian Beattie wrote:
> > I'm building a generic powerpc buildroot and it's all working as far as
> > I can tell, except the /etc/init.d/rcS will not run.  The line
> > "null::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS" is in /etc/inittab (I'm using
> > target/generic/target_skeleton/...).  Everything else in inittab seems
> > to be working and when I take the entries that mount /proc and all out
> > /proc does not get mounted.  When I run /etc/rcS it works fine.  The
> > permissions look OK.  I even put "echo $0>>/tag" as the first
> > executable line in the file, but rcS just does not want to run.
> > 
> > I'm baffeled, has anybody else run into this?
> 
> Is the /etc on the same partition as /bin, /sbin?
> 
> Can you post the error displayed? Also you might want to use this shabang
> 
> #!/bin/sh -x
> 
> in the /etc/init.d/rcS to see some debugging..

No errors, shell scripts would not run.

What I found was that including bash, caused /bin/sh to point to bash
and for dome reason bash does not want to run that early.  Currently
I've dropped bash.

> 
> HTH,
> Hinko
> 
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