[BusyBox] Busybox on MBX860 - No init found.

Erik Andersen andersen at codepoet.org
Fri Oct 5 01:43:49 UTC 2001


On Fri Oct 05, 2001 at 09:30:20AM +0200, Dalibor Kranjcic wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to download busybox versus uClibc on Motorola MBX860 (4MB RAM)
> platform.
> The kernel code is 520k and the file system is 125k long when ziped. 
> It works just fine on Intel when I'm trying to boot it from disk.
> The file system I'm using for MBX860 it's exactly the same as the one on
> disk, sure this time compiled for PowerPC.
> 
> Kernel starts without problem but it hangs on : 
>  
> "Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel"
> 
> I have already checked the kernel main.c file for right paths to init and
> that's ok. 
> I'm using binutils-2.11.90.0.8 and gcc-2.95.3 tools and the system is
> configured for powerpc-linux-gnu.
> The busybox compiling goes trough with no problems, but there is a warning
> "architecture UNKNOWN!" at the end which worries me a little.

Exactly what Makefile changes did you make?  It sounds perhaps like
the strip command is perhaps using your host system's native strip,
not the cross strip, thereby hosing your busybox binary...  Just
guessing.

 -Erik

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