Failing to boot busybox inside initramfs

Stefan Seyfried stefan.seyfried at googlemail.com
Wed Apr 6 14:49:32 UTC 2011


On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 09:36:05 +0200
Christian Gmeiner <christian.gmeiner at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all.
> 
> I have in the moment some troubles to boot a busybox based initramfs.
> The kernel boots, but fails with the following
> error message:
> 
> [    3.613747] NET: Registered protocol family 17
> [    3.648006] VFS: Cannot open root device "(null)" or unknown-block(8,1)
> [    3.692639] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are
> the available partitions:

Not a busybox issue.

Does this kernel boot a non-busybox based initramfs? Is the initramfs
loaded?
I doubt it.
-- 
Stefan Seyfried

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