[BusyBox] help! with reboot/halt problems please

george at itvd.sel.sony.com george at itvd.sel.sony.com
Thu Oct 4 11:24:10 UTC 2001


We had a similar problem, the reason was a lack of support in the
kernel for our hardware.  Look for example at
linux/arch/i386/kernel/process.c and verify that the routines for your
architecture work with your board.

George

--
George Williams
Sony, 3300 Zanker Road, San Jose CA 95134, USA

Goetz Bock <bock at blacknet.de> writes:

> On Tue, Oct 02 '01 at 11:55, Luke wrote:
> > I have not been able to figure out why I cannot reboot my embedded system
> > using busybox. 
> 
> > [ ... ]
> > The system is going down NOW !!
> > Sending SIGTERM to all processes.
> > Terminated
> > # Sending SIGKILL to all prPlease stand by while rebooting the system.
> > Restarting system.
> > 
> > ----------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > At this point the system freezes and never comes back.
> This is a well nown bug with busybox's init. 
> 
> reboot kills init, what leads to a kernel panik (init killed, as you
> could see on the console).
> As you have enough space for glibc and 2.4.x, maybe you can squeze in
> sysvinit, too.
> -- 
> Goetz Bock                                              IT Consultant
> Dipl.-Inf. Univ.





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