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Subject:    Re: [BusyBox] Problems.
From:       lbrigman () fcpa ! fujitsu ! com
Date:       2003-06-20 1:56:30
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A couple of places to start.
Building Tiny Linux Systems with Busybox--Part I @
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4335
and
the kernal docs ---> initrd.txt

also syslinux @ http://syslinux.zytor.com/
----
Larry Brigman
Fujitsu Computer Products of America
503.693.2051 lbrigman@fcpa.fujitsu.com
Coins 87-7935-2051


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Hi All,

I am wondering if anyone can shed light on on issues - - My outcome is to
have a linux system running booting from a floppy and using /dev/ram0 as /.
I have a kernel on 1 disk, and the root system on another for the sake of
troubleshooting. I have correctly installed the busybox files and issued
the 'make PREFIX=/path install' to have it do all the links. I also have
the libs to support busybox (I can chroot . sh and do everything with it).

The kernel starts, asks for the second disk, then mounts the compressed
filesystem found on block 0 of the second as ext2 with is correct, then
dies saying 'kernel panic: no init found. try passing init= . . . . etc'.

I am sure that you all have heard that one a million times before, as I
have scowered the mailing list archives. Some information is 2.4.19 kernel,
busybox 0.60.3, pretty standard hardware. I can confirm that /sbin/init is
where it should be, and that there aren't any extra directories above that
shouldn't be there. Permissions are good. I am using the inittab file
provided by busybox distro.

I have a few things that I think i could be doing wrong . . . . .

Compressing the root fs __ dd if=filesystem | gzip -v9 > rootfs.gz
or
series of rdevs for kernel disk __ rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/fd0 + rdev -R
/dev/fd0 0 + rdev -r /dev/fd0 value
or
a problem with /etc/fstab file in the filesystem - - Completely unsure what
that should look like, but assume
/            /dev/ram0         ext2        defaults          1           1
/proc        /proc                         proc        defaults
       1           1

If anyone could help, that would be great, better yet, if someone could
direct me to some good reading, even better !!

Thank you all in advanced.
Matt

PS: I have thoroughly read the boot disk how-to, and could use other
documents similar.


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