USB Flash rootfs prep!

[Cristian Axenie]

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Cristian Axenie <cristian.axenie at gmail.com
> wrote:

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> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Joachim Foerster <mls.JOFT at gmx.de>wrote:
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>> Hi Cristian,
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>> On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 03:05 +0200, Cristian Axenie wrote:
>> > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
>> > Freeing unused kernel memory: 156k init
>> > Warning: unable to open an initial console.
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>> Device file /dev/console doesn't seem to exist in your rootfs.
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> Strange because /dev/console exists in my ext2.img.
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>> > Failed to execute /bin/busybox.  Attempting defaults...
>> > Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found.  Try passing init= option
>> > to kernel.
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>> It seems that you don't have an executable called /bin/busybox in your
>> rootfs. Your kernel command line seems to have "init=/bin/busybox"
>> included?
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>> But, hmmm, it is very strange, at least in your uboot bootargs there is
>> no such string. Is it because of some default kernel command line (set
>> before compiling the kernel)?
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> I simply forgot to write them here (because I didn't knew if they were
> valid) but I 've tried with init=/sbin/init and get the same result !
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>> > Rebooting in 180 seconds..
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>> > Shall I explicitly give the init ? What should be ... init=/sbin/init,
>> > init=/bin/busybox ????
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>> The rootfs which comes with ELDK "starts" with /sbin/init - it does not
>> use busybox, right (as far as I can remember)? So you need to specify
>> "init=/sbin/init" on your kernel command line.
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> I've tried with /sbin/init and the same !!
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>>  Joachim
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> Cristian
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