Problem with AMCC powerPC 440EP (yosemite)

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Monday 24 August 2009 15:47, Sridhar Mahadevan wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to bring up the AMCC powerPC 440EP (yosemite) eval board using
> the wind river linux 2.0.The kernel version is 2.6.21.
> I compiled kernel for ppc and cross compiled busybox. I tried to load the
> kernel and file system using tftp and I got the following message.The kernel
> exits with kernel panic with signal 11.Am using busybox-1.4.1.
> 
> "===================================================================================
...
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> DEBUG:going to free init memory
> *Freeing unused kernel memory: 144k init
> init has generated signal 11 but has no handler for it
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> Rebooting in 180 seconds..*

You miscompiled busybox (or init, if your init is not from busybox).

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

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