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From: "Cristian Axenie" <cristian.axenie@gmail.com>
To: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: USB Flash rootfs prep!
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:12:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9c789a000811150112i484baa39y846bbf38ed6e1bb8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9c789a000811150112q3088a044ub8b38489b2119a60@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Cristian Axenie <cristian.axenie@gmail.com
> wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Joachim Foerster <mls.JOFT@gmx.de>wrote:
>
>> Hi Cristian,
>>
>> On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 03:05 +0200, Cristian Axenie wrote:
>> > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
>> > Freeing unused kernel memory: 156k init
>> > Warning: unable to open an initial console.
>>
>> Device file /dev/console doesn't seem to exist in your rootfs.
>
> Strange because /dev/console exists in my ext2.img.
>
>>
>>
>> > Failed to execute /bin/busybox.  Attempting defaults...
>> > Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found.  Try passing init= option
>> > to kernel.
>>
>> It seems that you don't have an executable called /bin/busybox in your
>> rootfs. Your kernel command line seems to have "init=/bin/busybox"
>> included?
>>
>> But, hmmm, it is very strange, at least in your uboot bootargs there is
>> no such string. Is it because of some default kernel command line (set
>> before compiling the kernel)?
>
>
> I simply forgot to write them here (because I didn't knew if they were
> valid) but I 've tried with init=/sbin/init and get the same result !
>
>>
>>
>> > Rebooting in 180 seconds..
>> >
>> > Shall I explicitly give the init ? What should be ... init=/sbin/init,
>> > init=/bin/busybox ????
>>
>> The rootfs which comes with ELDK "starts" with /sbin/init - it does not
>> use busybox, right (as far as I can remember)? So you need to specify
>> "init=/sbin/init" on your kernel command line.
>
>
> I've tried with /sbin/init and the same !!
>
>>
>>
>>  Joachim
>>
>>
>>
> Cristian
>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-15  9:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-15  1:05 USB Flash rootfs prep! Cristian Axenie
2008-11-15  8:18 ` Joachim Foerster
     [not found]   ` <9c789a000811150112q3088a044ub8b38489b2119a60@mail.gmail.com>
2008-11-15  9:12     ` Cristian Axenie [this message]
2008-11-15 10:01       ` Nicholas Mc Guire
2008-11-15 10:17         ` Cristian Axenie
2008-11-15 10:40           ` Nicholas Mc Guire
2008-11-15 11:15             ` Cristian Axenie
2008-11-15 12:12               ` Cristian Axenie
     [not found]               ` <Pine.LNX.4.58.0811150700530.5061@vlab.hofr.at>
2008-11-16 14:21                 ` Cristian Axenie

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