help with init not found error
Denis Vlasenko
vda.linux at googlemail.com
Sat Apr 21 10:19:25 UTC 2007
On Saturday 21 April 2007 07:49, Tosif Ahmed wrote:
> I am still not able to get past this particular error, the following
> messages are coming on the screen
>
> VFS: mounted root (romfs filesystem) Read only
> Freeing unused kernel memory : 120k freed
> Failed to execute /bin/msh. Attempting defaults ...
> Kernel panic - not syncing: no init found. Try passing init=option to kernel
You are here in kernel:
init/main.c
static void run_init_process(char *init_filename)
{
argv_init[0] = init_filename;
kernel_execve(init_filename, argv_init, envp_init);
}
...
static int init(void * unused)
...
if (execute_command) {
run_init_process(execute_command);
printk(KERN_WARNING "Failed to execute %s. Attempting "
"defaults...\n", execute_command);
}
run_init_process("/sbin/init");
run_init_process("/etc/init");
run_init_process("/bin/init");
run_init_process("/bin/sh");
panic("No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.");
}
What can I say. Apparently your kernel found it impossible to run
all these programs. Something is wrong with them.
(1) did you try compiling "Hello world" and run it (init=/hello_world)?
does this work?
(2) add a code which printk's kernel_execve return value:
- kernel_execve(init_filename, argv_init, envp_init);
+ int r = kernel_execve(init_filename, argv_init, envp_init);
+ printk("kernel_execve(%s) returned %d\n", init_filename, r);
what does it print?
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