Boot issues with latest Busybox and Linux Kernel (GLIBC)

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Tue Jan 8 06:04:05 UTC 2008


please fix your mailer to properly line wrap your messages

On Monday 07 January 2008, Michael Bertelson wrote:
> I'm using some of the CLFS instructions to create a Busybox GLIBC Linux
> system with the 2.6.23.12 kernel.  The system boots  to the init.d scripts
> to find that it's devices are not there, then it shuts down.  /dev/hda1 and
> /dev/null, as an example, it complains are not there, even though in the
> case of /dev/null, I manually created one.
>
> The startup scripts actually say they are to mount the /dev, /sys, etc.  Is
> this the issue by chance?  Do I need an initrd or something to mount those
> prior to the symlink /linuxrc -> busybox is run?  I thought that was
> supposed to initialize the dev file system, even though I can find no
> documentation as to what the busybox linuxrc symlink does.
>
> Interestingly enough, it does appear that things like the eth interfaces
> are actually there, since it actually says it brought up the network
> interface in the startup script shortly before shutting the system down.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas for me to try?  I feel really close to getting
> this working, but I am missing some information about how the whole boot
> process works. I did try even setting up an initrd from scratch to run a
> linuxrc that should even echo statements back to me, but it didn't seem to
> ever echo them even though the boot statements told me it saw the ext2
> initrd.  Odd.

this isnt a busybox problem ... please follow up with the LFS/CLFS projects in 
the future.

if you're using mdev from busybox, please review the docs/mdev.txt document.  
this covers everything you're asking after.
-mike
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