ash acts like init

[Yann E. MORIN]

Hello Casty and all,

On Saturday 28 March 2009 23:02:34 casty at centolos.com wrote:
> I'm trying to run ash as the init process in the kernel parameters
> (init=/bin/ash). But when I run it, it reads the /etc/inittab. I tried
> rebuilding busybox with init disabled, but the only thing I got was an
> "init: applet not found" error.
> I don't understand the internal process in bb, but it looks like when pid
> is zero, it ignores argv[0] and acts like init yes or yes.
> Is there any way to get ash to act as ash when called directly from the
> kernel?

For some architectures, the kernel has a hard-coded value for its command
line, that can not be overriden. Moreover, 2.6.29 offers this possibility
for all architectures now.

Double-check that this is not the case.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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