[BusyBox] no shell after booting

[Brian Keffer]

This How-To I wrote after creating my floppy may be helpful. 

http://thecommandline.org/projects/floppy.html

    Good luck,
       Brian

Quoting mitu at gmx.de:

> Hello folks,
> 
> please help me; I'm new in creating a custom boot disk!
> I've already read the bootdisk-HOWTO and all the stuff I
> could get from the busybox-homepage (README, MANPAGE, ...).
> But I still have a problem:
> 
> After booting there is nothing ?!? no shell prompt no asking...
> 
> Kernel boots well
> RamDisk inits ok
> 
> but then there is only one message more:
> "Freeing unused kernel memory 64k freed"
> 
> and a blinking cursor and nothing I can do with it
> (I can still type something on the screen?!?)
> 
> PLEASE HELP ME!!!
> 
> Perhaps there is something strange I have to write in a
> /etc/init.d/rcS ???
> 
> As mentioned in the Documentation I have no "inittab", but
> should work without...
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