[BusyBox] cannot get BusyBox to boot
Christoph Hanslik
hanslik at hanslux.de
Sat Dec 18 19:36:22 UTC 2004
Dear List,
I am very desperate, cannot get BusyBox to boot, seems that init does not run.
To build the ramdisk image I followed the losetup man page and the hints of
the kernel docs ramdisk.txt and initrd.txt.
The kernel is: 2.6.8.1, the file command says:
/boot/vmlinuz: Linux/x86 Kernel, Setup Version 0x203, bzImage, Version
2.6.8.1, RO-rootFS, root_dev 0x100, RAMdisksize 16384 kB, Video mode 791
I poked the root_dev, RAMdisksize and Video mode with the rdev command, but
with the commandline parameters in grub's menu.lst file I got no better
results.
Tried it with hard links and symbolic links, with inittab and without
inittab..., dynamically executable and static ...
I read everything about "init" in the list archives of the last 4 month but
got no hint to get it booting.
I have the example of ttylinux, that boots, but when I replace the busybox
executable with the one fitting my configuration, it agabin does not boot.
What the kernel says about loading the ramdisk:
RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 8192 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 188k freed
(then big slience, here I expect the /sbin/init to work and print out the
echos of the /etc/init.d/rcS script ...)
The fun is that ctrlaltdel is working.
Any hints which tell me what I am doing wrongly with BusyBox will be
appreciated!
Christoph Hanslik
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