help with inittab

[Steve Iribarne (GMail)]

On 6/9/06, Chris Dumoulin <cdumoulin at ics-ltd.com> wrote:
> I've now determined that my kernel seems to stop in the following line
> of code, in the function init(void * unused), in init/main.c:
> run_init_process("/sbin/init");

Who's init are  you using??

Are you using Busyboxes or sysinit from GNU?


> I've determined that it stops at this call by stepping through the code
> with a BDI2000.
>
> My boot arguments are:
> console=ttyS0,57600n8 ip=off root=/dev/ram0 rw
>
> My current inittab is:
> ::sysinit:/etc/rc.sh
> ::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/reboot
> ::shutdown:/sbin/swapoff -a
> ::shutdown:/bin/umount -a -r
> ::restart:/sbin/init
> ::respawn:/bin/sh
>
> I've tried adding an "echo" command to the /etc/rc.sh script that is
> called, but I don't see any output. I've also trying changing the
> ::sysinit line in inittab to point to some non-existent script, to see
> if I'll get some error message, but I still see nothing. Is it possible
> that /sbin/init is dying before it gets to the point of reading inittab?
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards,
> Chris Dumoulin
>
>
> Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>
> >In message <44888B92.40409 at ics-ltd.com> you wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I am using the linux kernel 2.6.15 and initrd ramdisk image from ELDK
> >>4.0. Currently, I seem to be able to boot without errors, but after the
> >>root filesystem is mounted, things just stop.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >And  what's  your  console  device?  Are  you  passing  any  console=
> >arguments  on  the  command  line?  Is the corresponding device entry
> >present in the /dev/directory?
> >
> >Best regards,
> >
> >Wolfgang Denk
> >
> >
> >
>
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