Booting ML405 (Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found)

[Grant Likely]

On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 10:24:13AM +0530, neeraj garg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to boot ML405 with Linux source code downloaded from  
> http://www.git.xilinx.com . My cross compiler tool chain version is  
> gcc-3.4.1, glibc-2.3.2 and binutils-2.15. I have also downloaded RAMDISK  
> from same url (http://www.git.xilinx.com). When I download  
> zImage.initrd.elf using XMD everything goes fine, untill RAMDISK is  
> uncompressed, I get following messages :
>
<snip>
>                                           [    3.736691] Failed to  
> execute /sbin/init.  Attempting defaults...
> [    3.748073] Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found.  Try passing  
> init= option to kernel.
> [    3.772040] Rebooting in 180 seconds..[  183.487314]   Signal: 8
>

Try changing the kernel parameters line to specify init=/bin/sh and see
what happens.

g.