Failing to boot busybox inside initramfs

Harald Becker ralda at gmx.de
Wed Apr 6 15:48:20 UTC 2011


 Hallo Christian!

> Here are the contents of the initramfs
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 christia christia       15 Apr  6 15:50 /init -> ../bin/busybox

That fails on startup on most kernels! This should be

init -> /bin/busybox

... else the startup code doesn't find init in the initramfs system and
fails ... which usually means the kernel continues it's normal startup
procedure and tries to mount a root partition (here /dev/sda1 = root
device 8,1, which doesn't exist, hence the kernel failure message).

--
Harald



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