Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

[baruch@tkos.co.il (Baruch Siach)]

Hi Woody,

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 03:40:42PM +0800, Woody Wu wrote:
> Firstly thank you so much for the suggestion.  But you know, this old
> file system is working for a old 2.6 kernel, which was not built by me.
> Hence I can see, this file system is okay for at least that version of
> kernel.

Make sure that you have support for ARM OABI if you need it for your older 
filesystem (very likely). See http://wiki.debian.org/ArmEabiPort for some 
background.

baruch

> For the situation, I want to try something from two directions:
> 1. Is there possible something missed from the kernel side? Any
> suggestion?
> 2. Because it resulted in a kernel panic message, I have no good way to
> trace it.  Can I run something else (init=) from the root file system to
> gather more information about the file system?  So, how can I play with
> the "init=" parameter to help for the case?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> -woody
> 
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 05:50:05PM +0800, Jello huang wrote:
> > pls check u root file system.if the root file system is no filesystem or not
> > * correct .the kernel shall*
> > *throw the kernel panic*
> > 
> > 
> > On 22 November 2012 17:19, Woody Wu <narkewoody@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > "Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> > > exitcode=0x0000000b"
> > >
> > > I got above message when I am porting 3.4.19 to a s3c2410 board.  I
> > > traced the execution path is: kernel_init() -> init_post() ->
> > > run_init_process("/sbin/init") -> kernel_execve().
> > >
> > > And, in the last function kernel_execve, the call of do_execve sucessed.
> > > Then I see a piece of assembly code follows which I cannot understand.
> > >
> > > That means, the root file system, which is mtdblock3 in my case, is
> > > mounted and /sbin/init was started to execute, then I got the panic
> > > message.
> > >
> > > Is that possible that this is caused by the root file system instead of
> > > the kernel? The root file system is a very old one that can run with an
> > > old kernel 2.6.14.
> > >
> > >
> > > Do you have any clue?  Thanks in advance!
> > >
> > > --
> > > woody
> > > I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

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