Hanging Init

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Wed Dec 11 11:33:32 EST 2002


In message <0509218DDAD7D6118055006008F6D5F6A1E3A2 at postal.viasat.com> you wrote:
>
> I figure I am at the last stage in boot (I hope). I am however having an
> issue that I was hoping someone
> may shed some light on. I am having a hanging init.
>
> 1) I rebuilt busybox and here are the dependencies:

Ummm... why did  you  do  that?  The  ELDK  already  cntains  BusyBox
binaries, both dymnamically and staically linked.

> 3) Here is the output from PPCBoot. It looks like NFS mount was successfull.
> I am using

...and if you're using the root filesystem over NFS  you  don;t  need
any busybox at all.

If  you're   looking   for   a   ramdisk   environment,   check   for
images/pRamdisk in your ELDK directory - there is a SELF RPM included
with ELDK 2.0.

>    NFS mount server that run in user space NOT kernel. Don't know of this
> makes any difference,
>    but I was able to NFS mount the directory from another machine.
> 	mount -t nfs 172.25.4.55:/tftpboot/powerpc/ /mnt/nfs.

Did you run the ELDK_MAKEDEV and ELDK_FIXOWNER sripts  as  documented
in section "7. Mounting Target Components via NFS" ?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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