Hi,
I have a custom linux distribution running 2.6.15 #1 SMP i686 kernel. About 3 out of 5 times the system seems to get stuck when starting up the init process and this happens when I have my console redirected to a serial port. However the system boots up and does keep booting if I press a key (and keep it pressed) on the terminal server attached to the serial port. If I do not press a key the system just remains where it is until the next time I press a key. This only happens after the init process is started (or when the control is handed off from the initramfs)
I use a custom initramfs which uses busybox binaries to do all the work. I have attached my configs below. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Siddharth
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grub.conf:
title Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 console=ttyS0 ramdisk_size=10240
initrd /initrd.gz
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My init (linuxrc) script from the initramfs looks like this:
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:.
export PATH
mount /proc
[ -d /sys ] || mkdir /sys
mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys
ROOT=`/bin/rootdev.pl`
if [ "x$ROOT" = "x" ]
then
echo "No root= in /proc/cmdline"
exit
fi
[ -d /new ] || mkdir /new
mount $ROOT /new
exec switch_root /new /sbin/init
