[BusyBox] still fighting with minit

[Robert P. J. Day]

Regarding my plea for help involving getting "minit" to work,
Glenn McGrath wrote:

> What kernel are you using ?

i'm not in front of the system at the moment, but it's a hacked 
version of 2.4.22-pre8 that we got from the embedded linux
vendor we work with.

> There used to be a problem where the kernel started init, it would
> rename argv[0] to "init" which stopped busybox from working, i forget
> what version it was fixed in, but it was fixed about 6 months ago.

that sure sounds like it would cause the problem i'm seeing, since BB
would obviously try to run init, which doesn't even exist.  i can just
check the kernel source and see how init/minit is being invoked to
verify if that's the problem.

> If your stuck wit han older kernel, you could try "init=/bin/busybox
> minit", maybe that will work, not sure.

ok, i'll give it a shot when i get the chance.

> (i initially put minit into busybox, but havent done anything with it
> since i struck this problem)

hmmm ... does that mean that it's not as thoroughly tested as init
and that it wouldn't be as reliable?  that would definitely be an issue
here.  i'll test and keep you posted.

rday


Glenn