From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: narkewoody@gmail.com (Woody Wu) Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 09:19:53 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org 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.