[BusyBox] cannot get BusyBox to boot

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Sat Dec 18 21:50:57 UTC 2004


On Saturday 18 December 2004 02:36 pm, Christoph Hanslik wrote:
> Dear List,
> I am very desperate, cannot get BusyBox to boot, seems that init does not
> run.

In general you debug this kind of problem in three steps:

1) Get an initrd to boot /bin/sh.  (Break down and compile a static bash or 
something, and then get the kernel to boot up to a bash prompt.  Then worry 
about dynamic linking.  Or use a "hello world" executable to start out, 
even...)

2) Chroot into your initrd root image from a working linux system and try to 
get that to work.

3) Put #1 and #2 together.

Rob



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