[BusyBox] "auto: applet not found" ...

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Sat Nov 8 00:57:06 UTC 2003


On Friday 07 November 2003 17:18, Karim Yaghmour wrote:
> David Meggy wrote:
> > You probably want to take this to the kernel mailing list for whichever
> > architecture you are using.  I'd also try and write a very small
> > statically linked program, that just tells you that it is running, and
> > try using that as init.  Just to help you make sure you are clear on if
> > the problem is in user land or kernel land.
>
> Actually, this look like a hardware problem. The same boot floppy that
> pukes with the Tri-M MZ104 works fine on a Pentium 60 with the same
> amount of RAM (8MB).
>
> Thanks anyway,
>
> Karim

memtest86.

The "auto" argument is actually supplied by the kernel as argv[1] to init if 
there are no other arguments on the command line.  I forget why, discussion 
of it wandered by on linux-kernel a while back...

Rob



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