Re: Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

["Sreen Tallam" <tallam.sreen@gmail.com>]

Hi Sebastian,

Thank you for looking into this issue.
But I am not using udev. And my /dev is empty, there is no devices in there.

Any more hints on this. I would appreciate your follow up.

Thanks,
Sreen

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 1:50 AM, Sebastian Siewior
<linuxppc-embedded@ml.breakpoint.cc> wrote:
> * Sreen Tallam | 2008-04-09 19:07:01 [-0700]:
>
>
>  >VFS: Mounted root (jffs2 filesystem) readonly.
>  >Freeing unused kernel memory: 156k init
>  >Warning: unable to open an initial console.
>  >init/main.c -- 819
>  >init/main.c -- 821
>  >init/main.c -- 844
>  >init/main.c -- 704 -- /sbin/tallam_init<0>Kernel panic - not syncing:
>  >Attempted to kill init!
>  >Call Trace:
>  >[C3FE7E60] [C0006D98]  (unreliable)
>  >[C3FE7EA0] [C001F150]
>  >[C3FE7EF0] [C0023630]
>  >[C3FE7F30] [C0023734]
>  >[C3FE7F40] [C000DBC0]
>  > <0>Rebooting in 180 seconds..
>  >
>
>  This looks like you are missing /dev/console and probably /dev/null. You
>  need atleast those two nodes in your rootfs if you are using udev. You
>  will need a static /dev if you don't use udev/mdev.
>
>  >Thanks,
>  >Sreen
>  Sebastian
>