[BusyBox] Help getting .49 booted on a 2.4 kernel
Richard June
rjune at imagestream-is.com
Wed Mar 14 17:07:59 UTC 2001
Bob Van Gulick wrote:
> Hi all,
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> I've been using busybox for a while on the 2.3.99 kernel with busybox
> 0.45 and everything has been working fine. I'm in the process of moving
> up to the golden 2.4 kernel and decided I should probably goto the
> latest busybox (.49) as well. I'm working on an embedded linux system
> that is being cross compiled to run on MIPS.
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> Unfortunately, I'm having some problems with 2.4 and BB .49. When my
> ramdisk is mounted and busybox is init'ed, I get the following error msgs:
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> "linuxrc: applet not found"
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> "kernel panic: I have no root and want to scream"
This is because linuxrc isn't in busybox, it's a script or program that runs the initialization stuff, then exits
and passes control to init, either directly by calling it, or indirectly(I don't 'member which)
> I do have a linuxrc in the root of my ramdisk directory and it points to
> /bin/busbox which also is there.
See above. linuxrc should probably be a script that reads something like this.
#!/bin/sh
/sbin/init
That is a simple example, but it should work.
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