Kernel panic: No init found.

[Mark Hatle]

Well first make try passing init= as a kernel argument and point it to
something that should be on the root disk..

Second, if the disk is mounting right, most likely you are missing a
shared library and/or program interpreter.

Best way to debug this IMHO is to put a static shell there, ash.static,
sash, etc... pass init=<static shell>  then try to run the init process
manually.. you may get more informative error messages.

--Mark

Mike G. wrote:
>
> Can someone help me with this.. .been try to figure it out for
> quite sometime... and still stuck at it. I am using u-boot-0.4.0
> and linux-2.4.20-rc2 and runnig it for a board equip with MPC857. I
> don't know what is wrong with this. I have check it ramdisk log file
> everything seem to be there .. including the init. I have try to mount
> the squashfs on the host PC and run the init and it works. Hmm.. I am
> out of ideas on what to try next.. Help me please please....
>
> here the output :-
>
> Inte0: Swapping erase regions for broken CFI table.
> number of CFI chips: 1
> init_inte: bank1, name:Inte0, size:4194304bytes
> Inte flash0: Using Static image partition definition
> Creating 5 MTD partitions on "Inte0":
> 0x00000000-0x00080000 : "kernel"
> 0x00080000-0x00180000 : "ramdisk"
> 0x00180000-0x00300000 : "user1"
> 0x00300000-0x00380000 : "uboot"
> 0x00380000-0x00400000 : "user2"
> NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
> IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
> IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024)
> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
> VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly.
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 44k init
> Kernel panic: No init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel.
>  <0>Rebooting in 180 seconds..

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