NFS root woes: No init found

[Brian Waite]

I tried loading the ash shell statically linked., along with a dynamically
linked bash. No executables seem to load. I have traced the execve call and
it progresses as far as walking the format list to determine what format the
file is in. After walking all the available formats, it can't find one and
fails. I have the floowing formats in my kernel:
CONFIG_KCORE_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_KERNEL_ELF=y

and the ash executale is an elf:
ash.static: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, PowerPC or cisco 4500, version 1,
statically linked, stripped

Any thoughts? I see the packets getting revieved by the gt64260_eth driver and
passed up to the higher layers. I also look at the various MIB counters and
see no errant packets so I can't why NFS is so cranky.

Thanks
Brian

On Wednesday 04 December 2002 5:20 pm, you wrote:
> Hello,
>
> if you get to the bash prompt you could try to start the init program
> manually. This should result in more useful error messages.
>
> Hope it helps,
>
> Wolfgang.
>
> On 12/04/2002 11:11 PM Brian Waite wrote:
> > I did this. I tried to start a staticly linked ash shell to no avail. No
> > libs are better than any libs :)
> > Thanks
> > Brian
> >
> > On Wednesday 04 December 2002 4:48 pm, Dan Malek wrote:
> >> Brian Waite wrote:
> >> > ...Then I get the message No init found.
> >>
> >> First, try using something simple like /bin/bash as your init program.
> >> Trying to start up the init program relies on lots of things being
> >> present in the file system.  If the program starts, and then exits,
> >> you still get this message.
> >>
> >> Just use a trivial, simple file system to get started.  A shell,
> >> couple of commands and minimal libraries are easier to debug.
> >>
> >> Good luck :-)
> >>
> >> 	-- Dan
> >


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