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You could also try compiling init statically.  I've had success with
that in the past until I figured out what the actual problem was.


On 5/30/06, Anantharaman Chetan-W16155
<Chetan.S.Anantharaman@motorola.com> wrote:
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>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to bring up a custom board with a PPC405 processor running Linux
> 2.4.20 (MontaVista Release) and am having problems with the call to
> execve("/sbin/init", argv_init, envp_init) not returning in the file main.c.
> The processor just hangs and there is no output on the terminal. I have
> tried to see if I can run "bin/sh" and even this execve call does not
> return. Some things about the board are, the networking option has been
> disabled in the Linux .config file. I am running U-Boot 1.1.1 as the
> bootloader and am downloading the uImage (compressed kernel) and the
> initrd.boot (filesystem) into RAM and accessing the filesystem in RAM.
>
>
>
> Any help as to what could be causing this to happen or how to debug this
> issue would be appreciated. Also, I've tried to capture the return value of
> the execve call but since the call does not return, this has not helped any.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chetan Anantharaman
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