Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <3C23345C.1274D300 at multitech.co.in> you wrote:
>
> i downloaded pre built ramdisk.image.gz from
> ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/LinuxPPC/usr/src/simple-ramdisk.image.gz
>
> i put a printk in fs/opennamei () function
> i end up with the following output.
>
> is it crashing because of library missing or something else?

Yes ;-)

Well, I think I should be a bit more helpful: something else is missing.

...
> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

If you check the contents of tha ramdisk image (simply uncompress  it
and mount it using the loopback device) you will see that there is no
"init" included.

Try passing a "init=/bin/sh" argument on the kernel commandline.

Wolfgang Denk

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