From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3DEE7FA8.7000908@bluewin.ch> Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 23:20:24 +0100 From: Wolfgang Grandegger MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Waite Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: NFS root woes: No init found References: <200212041635.31861.waite@skycomputers.com> <3DEE781C.5070208@embeddededge.com> <200212041711.04032.waite@skycomputers.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Hello, if you get to the bash prompt you could try to start the init program manually. This should result in more useful error messages. Hope it helps, Wolfgang. On 12/04/2002 11:11 PM Brian Waite wrote: > I did this. I tried to start a staticly linked ash shell to no avail. No libs > are better than any libs :) > Thanks > Brian > On Wednesday 04 December 2002 4:48 pm, Dan Malek wrote: >> Brian Waite wrote: >> > ...Then I get the message No init found. >> >> First, try using something simple like /bin/bash as your init program. >> Trying to start up the init program relies on lots of things being >> present in the file system. If the program starts, and then exits, >> you still get this message. >> >> Just use a trivial, simple file system to get started. A shell, >> couple of commands and minimal libraries are easier to debug. >> >> Good luck :-) >> >> -- Dan > > > > ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/