init hangs

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Thu Nov 22 22:55:14 UTC 2007


On Thursday 22 November 2007 01:14, saravanan chanemouganandam wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The rootfs "root_fs_arm.ext2.bz2" which I am testing was downloaded from
> the reference link
> http://dslinux.gits.kiev.ua/trunk/uClibc/docs/uclibc.org/toolchains.html.
> As I have some problem with toochain, I have started to test first using
> the existing rootfs built for arm the target which failed to work.
>
> Test with (init=/sbin/hello) "Hello world" statically linked using uclibc
> doesn't show any message whereas statically linked using glibc shows the
> message.  I wonder why it doesn't work well with uclibc. Is this problem
> due to the kernel-headers or uclibc config ?

Also may be bad choice of ARM processor flavor, and uclibc code
ended up containing commands which are not supported by your processor.

This is a quite typical cause of "my init doesn't run!" problem.
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