trying to debug my failure to start "init"

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>]

  just before i pack it in for the day, i'm still grappling with why i
can't get the linuxppc-2.5 kernel to start the init/minit program on my
8xx board.  very curious, since it used to be able to, even if it hung
immediately afterwards.

  for more feedback, i added a printk() call to the run_init_process()
function in init/main.c to see what it thought it was doing.  the tail end
of my boot sequence was:

...
Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,9600 rw root=/dev/ram0 init=/sbin/minit
... snip ...
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).             <-- good
Mounted devfs on /dev                            <-- also good
Freeing unused kernel memory: 52k init
Trying run_init_process with /sbin/minit         <-- hmm, that should work
Trying run_init_process with /sbin/init
Trying run_init_process with /etc/init
Trying run_init_process with /bin/init
Trying run_init_process with /bin/sh
Kernel panic: No init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel.


  at this point, i'm out of ideas, and in need of a beer.  thanks to
everyone who's provided advice so far.

rday

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