From: David Huggins-Daines <dhuggins@cs.cmu.edu>
To: openembedded-devel@openembedded.org
Subject: Re: /linuxrc link to /bin/busybox causes booting to fail, (sysvinit should be used instead)
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:37:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49DB651F.7060408@cs.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.55349.1238837263.4692.openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org>
>
> On 03-04-09 22:44, David Huggins-Daines wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > When booting base-image or minimal-image from a ramdisk, I get errors
>> > like the following:
>>
>
> Do you have
> http://cgit.openembedded.net/cgit.cgi?url=openembedded/commit/&id=5261978d6f9600640c1ea4f1393e18772d4f9657
> in your OE tree?
>
I do, I think, but actually I discovered the reason for this. It's a
subtlety of the Linux boot process which I didn't previously
understand. Basically the kernel will use /linuxrc as init if and only
if the root filesystem on the command line is different from the root
partition. So if you are using a ramdisk root (and not an initrd), you
need to put root=/dev/ram0 on the kernel command line.
next parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-07 14:40 UTC|newest]
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2009-04-07 14:37 ` David Huggins-Daines [this message]
2009-04-07 17:24 ` /linuxrc link to /bin/busybox causes booting to fail, (sysvinit should be used instead) Denys Dmytriyenko
2009-04-03 20:44 /linuxrc link to /bin/busybox causes booting to fail " David Huggins-Daines
2009-04-03 23:03 ` Denys Dmytriyenko
2009-04-04 6:36 ` Koen Kooi
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