Re: problem bring up initramfs and busybox

[Chris Dearman <chris@mips.com>]

Kevin D. Kissell wrote:
> This looks like another boot file system setup problem to me.  Are you 
> sure that there's an executable init image at /mnt/root/sbin/init?  I'm 
> pretty sure that the path that you provide to your new init has to be 
> relative to the new root.

That sounds right.

Andrew, my suggestion would be to change your initramfs /init script to 
invoke "/bin/busybox sh" as the last command instead of "exec 
switch_root". The "Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!" 
says that switch_root is exiting for some reason. It could be anything 
from missing files/devices on the /mnt/root file system to a bug in 
busy_box.
By booting into the shell you can run the command by hand (maybe with 
strace if you have it) to help identify where the problem is.

Chris

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