[Buildroot] my /etc/init.d/rcS won't run

Hinko Kocevar hinko.kocevar at cetrtapot.si
Fri Aug 1 07:24:31 UTC 2008


Brian Beattie wrote:
> I'm building a generic powerpc buildroot and it's all working as far as
> I can tell, except the /etc/init.d/rcS will not run.  The line
> "null::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS" is in /etc/inittab (I'm using
> target/generic/target_skeleton/...).  Everything else in inittab seems
> to be working and when I take the entries that mount /proc and all out
> /proc does not get mounted.  When I run /etc/rcS it works fine.  The
> permissions look OK.  I even put "echo $0>>/tag" as the first
> executable line in the file, but rcS just does not want to run.
> 
> I'm baffeled, has anybody else run into this?

Is the /etc on the same partition as /bin, /sbin?

Can you post the error displayed? Also you might want to use this shabang

#!/bin/sh -x

in the /etc/init.d/rcS to see some debugging..

HTH,
Hinko

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