I/O error

Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha strange at nsk.no-ip.org
Sun Dec 24 14:50:46 UTC 2006


On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 11:44:41AM +0200, Rudy Attias wrote:
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> hey ,
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> I'm having a strange problem (busybox 1.2.2.1 compiled with uClibc), the busybox was compiled for initrd purposes and when loaded with a 2.4 kernel I receive an io error on most of the applets. some of the applets like kill, echo, [  work ok but all others including sh just won't work. the applets will work only if I call them from busybox (a.g. busybox {sh,ls}) but if I call them from the symbolic link I get the error... worth to mention that the same initrd loaded with a 2.6 kernel work perfectly ...
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> any idea what the problem might be? I'm sure I'm missing something but I just don't know what.

What's the size of your (uncompressed) initrd? If it's bigger than 4MB,
you must add ramdisk_size=<size> option to the kernel.

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lfr
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