Failing to boot busybox inside initramfs

[Christian Gmeiner]

Hi all.

I have in the moment some troubles to boot a busybox based initramfs.
The kernel boots, but fails with the following
error message:

[    3.613747] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[    3.648006] VFS: Cannot open root device "(null)" or unknown-block(8,1)
[    3.692639] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are
the available partitions:
[    3.752347] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root
fs on unknown-block(8,1)
[    3.812043] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.36.4 #19
[    3.850256] Call Trace:
[    3.870090]  [<c11603d1>] ? panic+0x4d/0x12a
[    3.900878]  [<c11f9b4a>] ? mount_block_root+0x1ec/0x200
[    3.937950]  [<c11f9b97>] ? mount_root+0x39/0x4d
[    3.970918]  [<c11f929a>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0xfc
[    4.003838]  [<c11f9ce8>] ? prepare_namespace+0x13d/0x16d
[    4.041488]  [<c11f938d>] ? kernel_init+0xf3/0xfc
[    4.074770]  [<c1002876>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10
[    4.198047] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 2264848813 ns)


Attached are the busybox and the kernel config files. I hope somebody
could give me some hints.

Thanks
--
Christian Gmeiner, MSc
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