From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3F3AF502.2030300@mvista.com> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 21:33:38 -0500 From: Mark Hatle MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Mike G." Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Kernel panic: No init found.?? Try passing init= option to kernel References: <1060827870.1060.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1060827870.1060.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Mike G. wrote: > Hi there, > Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. That message indicates one of a few things happened. The first is it could not find any default init programs to run. the second is whatever "init=" that you passed in was not found. or... third, the most common, you have a bad dependency, so when it tries to run init the dynamic loader fails, (shell loader fails in the case of a shell script.) Something is causing the program not to run properly. The way I usually debug this is to install ash.static on the system, set my kernel command line to have init=/bin/ash.static.. boot up and then attempt to run the "real" init manually so I can get the descriptive error messages. --Mark ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/