mount /dev/sda6 /root/ (strange mount result, everything symlinked)

[Patrick Ogay]

Hello,

I'm trying to boot a ubuntu 8.10 from quemu. 
Everything seem's o.k. 
the drive /dev/sda6 was recognized and mounted on /root
but boot is interupted because of "to many symlinks"

Busybox v1.10.2 (Ubuntu 1.1.10.2-1ubuntu7) multi-call binary

Now when I'm looking at /root 
ls -ali /root looks like: 
24424 lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 17 UStudio8.10 -> Ustudio8.10
24391 lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 4 sbin -> sbin  
...

ls .ali /  
460 437 -rwxr-xr.x 1 0 0 4256 init     (no symlinks) 


The entry names seem to be correct (for example ustudio8.10) but every
entry is linked to itself. 

I tryed  a umount/mount. The result is the same. 
and 
ls /proc/sbin   (ls:sbin: too many levels of symbolic links)

But what could be the reason for this mount behavior?

regards

Patrick Ogay
Switzerland 


P.S.
I often copy linuxes to memory-sticks and usbdrives, und make the
usb-bootable via qemu.
like
sudo qemu -hda /dev/sdb -m 254 -kernel ./vmlinuz -initrd ./initrd.img
-append "rw root=/dev/sda6"

Because I make a lot of installations, I looked a bit closer to the
busybox, which is a very nice tool.
But I didn't find much information on startup problems and correcting
things via buzybox.