[BusyBox] Rebooting the system?

[Jean Wolter]

Michael Boman <michael.boman at securecirt.com> writes:

> I am trying to get BusyBox's 'reboot' command just to plainly reboot the
> system (very much as the small button on the front panel does). I have
> a small /bin/ash script that does a custom hands-off installation of
> Linux and I would like it to just reboot the system once done. Everytime
> I try to execute the reboot command I get "Kernel panic: Attempted to
> kill init!". Could anyone give me a clue about this matter?

Busybox reboot doesn't work. This was reported at least twice and you
can find an explanation for the kernel panic in
http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2002-October/012385.html.

Are there any plans to fix this issue?

Regards, 
Jean