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From: myuboot@fastmail.fm
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "linux-mips" <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:22:55 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1257898975.30125.1344591929@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AD906D8.3020404@caviumnetworks.com>

Hi, 

I got the following error trying to bring up the /sbin/init with Kernel
2.6.31 using cramfs filesystem on a MIPS 32 board:

[    1.160000] VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly on device
31:2.
[    1.171000] Freeing unused kernel memory: 116k freed
[    1.223000] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
[    1.229000] Rebooting in 3 seconds..

Using BDI I know the kernel panic happens as soon as
run_init_process("/sbin/init") in init_post() is called. The filesystem
itself seems to be ok, because I can use 'ls' command under u-boot to
see /sbin/init is a symbolic link to busybox. Also the kernel seems to
like the filesystem and can mount the filesystem.  I have for checked
for similar questions for this error, so I tried replacing /sbin/init
with a hello world program, but the result is exactly the same. It seems
neither hello-world or /sbin/init got executed. 

At this point, I don't know how to debug this issue. Any suggestion on
how to debug this issue will be greatly appreciated.

Andrew

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-11  0:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-16 23:23 2.6.31 kernel for mips compile failure - war.h:12:17: error: war.h: No such file or directory myuboot
2009-10-16 23:41 ` myuboot
2009-10-16 23:50 ` David Daney
2009-10-19 23:49   ` myuboot
2009-10-19 23:56   ` serial port 8250 messed up after coverting from little endian to big endian on kernel 2.6.31 myuboot
2009-10-20  6:17     ` Florian Fainelli
2009-10-20 15:52       ` myuboot
2009-10-27 20:40       ` myuboot
2009-10-28  8:35         ` Shmulik Ladkani
2009-10-28 11:04           ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-10-28 19:36             ` myuboot
2009-10-29  8:26               ` Shmulik Ladkani
2009-11-02 23:54                 ` myuboot
2009-12-04  1:52           ` PIR OFFSET for AR7 myuboot
2009-12-04 16:03             ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2009-12-04 17:30               ` myuboot
2009-11-11  0:22   ` myuboot [this message]
2009-11-11  7:45     ` Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! Gaye Abdoulaye Walsimou
2009-11-11 15:48       ` myuboot
2009-11-17  0:21       ` problem bring up initramfs and busybox myuboot
2009-11-17  9:33         ` Ralf Baechle
2009-11-17 17:39           ` myuboot
2009-11-17 17:48             ` Florian Fainelli
2009-11-17 21:09               ` myuboot
2010-01-19 19:51   ` loadable kernel module link failure - endianness incompatible with that of the selected emulation myuboot
2010-01-19 23:47     ` David Daney
2010-01-20 16:10       ` myuboot

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