I figured out the problem. I just moved to a x64 platform and so my toolchain was building for x64...doesn't work so well when your target is a laptop from 15 years ago! -Ersin On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Ersin Akinci <ersin.akinci@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > -- ========= 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
