Fwd: [BusyBox] Attempted to kill init...

[KrutAw at aol.com]

We have an answer!  Thanks again John for gettin' it on the first try! :)

In a message dated 5/13/2002 12:16:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
jrstuart at blackboxware.com writes:


> I saw your post on list, although I'm not a subscriber. I'm not an expert 
> on Linux or Busybox but I have encounter some problems with the "out of 
> the box" bootfloppy scripts. I set up my directories differently that than 
> what was expected (trying to isolate the embedded target builds from the 
> host builds) and thus had to modify some stuff.
> 
> The error you got is fairly generic and could mean many things. From the 
> standpoint of libraries, you should test to see if they're the problem by 
> changing DOSTATIC to true in the Makefile. If this configuration boot than 
> the problem was busybox not finding the libs. What I found was that the 
> "make install" for uClibc put the libs into /usr/i386-linux-uclibc. And 
> performing ldd on busybox (executable) resulted in pointing to this 
> location. I had to copy these libraries to a /usr/i386-linux-uclibc/lib 
> directory in my build of the initrd image, instead of /lib. You need to 
> make certain that the directories stated by ldd are the exact location you 
> have copied the libraries to.
> 
> If the static build of busybox results in the same error message then the 
> problem isn't with the libraries.
> 
> If you find this solution helpful, post to it to the list.


Thanks,

Andy Kruta CNA, A+, Net+
Operations Support Specialist
Internal Computing Call Center Service Delivery & Support
904-357-7010
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