[BusyBox] init - newbie question

[Willem Oldeman]

Dear everyone,

I'm new to Busybox and hope I can ask a question to you. (If not, which 
mailing list should I ask?)

I want to get a 486/66 up and running. It has enough RAM (40M), but little 
diskspace (400M), so no ordinary modern distro's for that machine.
My idea was to start it from scratch, but it needs some basic functionality 
(networking, telnet & ftp)

So, in comes a kernel (2.4.18) and Busybox+Tinylogin.
The kernel and root filesystem are on seperate compressed floppies.

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The problem: init seems to stall, the last messages seen are:
VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press enter
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Freeing unused kernel memory: 76k freed.
After that, the system is dead (but echoes keystrokes).

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I have compiled everything on a modern Linux PC, using GCC flags "-O2 
-march=i486" to generate optimized 486 code. (following the Bootdisk-HOWTO).

The kernel is one with very basic functionality without modules.
It has support for a yucky network card (Natsemi 83815), basic networking, 
ext2, /proc and /dev/pts support.

I changed the Makefile for Busybox to create a static binary and to enable 
TFTP and TELNET.
The Makefile for Tinylogin was also modified to create a static binary.
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Can someone point me in the right direction? So far I believe that init -> 
busybox is playing up?

Thanks,
- Willem