trouble with init in EABI toolchain

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Wednesday 09 May 2007 14:15, Brian Austin wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 11:03 -0700, Larry Brigman wrote:
> > On 5/9/07, Brian Austin <brian.austin at cirrus.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 12:30 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday 09 May 2007, Brian Austin wrote:
> > > > > anyone have issues with init in EABI busybox?
> > > >
> > > > most likely an EABI issue rather than a busybox issue ... as such, you should
> > > > ask on the arm mailing lists as they prob have a lot more experience in
> > > > common user gotchas
> > > > -mike
> > >
> > > I can see a kernel panic attempting to kill init when I set
> > > init=/bin/busybox on the kernel command line.
> > 
> > Because busybox will exit unless you give it a command like:
> > /bin/busybox sh
> > 
> 
> correct, but when I do init=/bin/busybox sh nothing happens.

It means "init=/bin/busybox" "sh". sh is not going into value
of init, it becomes another kernel prarmeter!

make a symlink /bin/sh -> /bin/busybox and boot with init=/bin/sh
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