[BusyBox] no init found...

Tim Riker Tim at Rikers.org
Mon Nov 4 11:25:05 UTC 2002


assuming busybox also provides ash, try:

chroot /embed /bin/ash

and see if that works. I suspect it will not and that you have some 
library issues.

David Morel wrote:> Hi all,
> 
> I'm quite new to this, so forgive me for being stupid...
> 
> I compiled uClic 0.9.15 and busybox 0.60.5 successfully against a custom
> 2.4.19 kernel. This is not for use on a boot floppy, but rather on a
> small partition on hda, mounted on /embed for now
> 
> i did a make (with DEVEL_PREFIX set to /embed) and make install on
> uClibc, and successfully built busybox with make
> CC=/embed/bin/i386-uclibc-gcc && make PREFIX=/embed install
> 
> i can launch busybox with no problem, and an /embed/bin/i386-uclibc-ldd
> busybox gives me the correct location for the dependencies.
> 
> Still when i try to boot on the named partition, the kernel loads fine
> but the boot process invariably dies with :
> Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option blah blah.
> ...although the link /sbin/init points to busybox as it should. 
> 
> Could anybody give me a hint ? This is driving me crazy... Thanks in
> advance.
> 
> D.Morel
> 
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