Hi all, I've been trying to make a boot disk for a very old computer (Toshiba Satellite 420CDT, a fine laptop) using initramfs, but I haven't been able to get the thing to boot. The kernel spits out the error "Failed to execute /init". Here are some details: 1) My init file exists (I've also tried passing rdinit=/bin/sh and init=/bin/sh but I still get the same error. Note that /bin/sh is a symlink to a statically linked busybox executable) 2) My init file has correct permissions (chmod +x init) and the owner is root 3) My init file is a very simple script (#!/bin/sh.../bin/ash --login...EOF) 4) I'm using an external initramfs image that's gzip compressed and passing it as an option using "initrd=/boot/initramfs.gz" in my menu.lst in GRUB. Here's what my screen output reads while booting: CPU: Intel Pentium 75 - 200 stepping 0c Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0 Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs... Freeing initrdd memory: 676k freed platform rtc_cmos: registered platform RTC device (no PNP device found) msgmni has been set to 76 io scheduler noop registered io scheduler deadline registered (default) Hangcheck: starting hangcheck timer 0.9.0 (tick is 180 seconds, margin is 60 seconds). Hangcheck: Using get_cycles(). Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is an 8272A brd: module loaded serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice rtc_cmos rtc_cmos: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0 rtc0: alarms up to one day, 114 bytes nvram rtc_cmos rtc_cmos: setting system clock to 2009-09-24 15:48:55 UTC (1253807335) Freeing unused kernel memory: 152k freed Failed to execute /init Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. I've also tried using an initrd image built from the same file directory structure and mounting it on /dev/ram0 and running the same init file from /sbin/init, but that results in the same error as above (except it reads Failed to execute /sbin/init). Any ideas? Thanks, Ersin P.S.: My apologies if this seems like a hopelessly newbie question for this mailing list, but I could not find the answer anywhere else and everyone's initramfs/init/boot conditions vary so wildly that it would be hard to find "the right answer". -- ========= Ersin Y. Akinci -- http://www.ersinakinci.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
