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Subject:    RE: [BusyBox] init not found error - Solved!
From:       "Thomas Cameron" <tom () patcameron ! ne ! mediaone ! net>
Date:       2002-01-19 10:43:04
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Hello all,
	Ususlly when this problem is posted to the message board, it has
to do with a few things.  1) Support for your filesystem hasn't been
compiled into the kernel, and this it won't mount it.  2) /dev entries
don't exist.  Sometimes this causes a problem (when not using devfs)
because /dev/ramX can't be found...and thus can't be mounted.  3) all
required files aren't found in /lib or your lib directory.  This causes
many problems, because the programs themselves can't run, and many times
will fail quitely on bootup.
	Usually these problems will produce descriptive error messages,
but sometimes they don't.  Libraries are usually the biggest culprit
(miscompiled busybox, etc.), and the first thing you should check.
Permissions are a pain also, but you can solve that by setting them
before you unmount the loop file system on the development machine.  You
may also want to look into using other filesystems that ext2.  Many of
them are perfect for embedded Linux and uClibc/BusyBox projects, as they
range from read-only permissionless filesystems to read-write
filesystems like Minix.  They also usually take up less space, and
compress better.  Anyway, that's just what I've found from my limited
experience.  Good luck.

-Thomas Cameron
-Cameron Enterprises, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: Silvio Romagnoli [mailto:null.r@flashnet.it]=20
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 8:44 AM
To: andersen@codepoet.org
Cc: busybox@busybox.net
Subject: Re: [BusyBox] init not found error - Solved!


Solved, finally!
Apparently there was a permissions problem somewhere, solved by issuing
a chown -R to the busybox and uClibc directories.

Thankyou very much to everybody for helping, though.
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