Busybox init hangs: No shell prompt??

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Mon Sep 4 19:33:42 UTC 2006


On Monday 04 September 2006 4:37 am, HarYash Bahadur wrote:
> Hi Friends,
> 
> I am trying to port Linux 2.6.11.1 on an ARM9 based platform. I am
> through with the hardware specific changes in the kernel and have
> reached a stage where the "sbin/init" process is invoked. I hope that
> if init process runs fine I should be able to see the shell prompt on
> my serial console. But this doesn't happen. The kernel just hangs !!
> 
> How can I change my busybox/rootfs/device_table.txt/inittab .. etc ..
> etc so that I am able to properly boot 2.6.11 on my board.

http://busybox.net/FAQ.html#init

Rob


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