Well, acctually Im trying to use this netboot client in a virtual machine for kernel developing purposes. I thing this seemsto be a bit complicated. :/ On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 2:20 PM, <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 13 May 2011 13:06:40 -0300, Erlon Cruz <sombrafam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> Im having the following problem to configure a diskless client. >> Everything seens to be OK. The client finds the kernel, loads the >> parameters, mount the NFS remote dir, but still cant find init. >> The error I get is: >> >> run-init: /sbin/init: No such file or directory >> Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! >> Pid: 1 , comm: run-init Not tainted >> >> I know the the file system can find /sbin/init because I compiled a >> small hello World program and compiled statically and it runs >> normally. >> The question is: How can a make the real init run dynamically linked >> or how can I compile it statically? >> >> >> Kind regards, >> Erlon >> > > You can get a statically linked init program using buildroot to build > busybox. Buildroot has a "build statically" option. > I had that problem once, I solved it by booting a local filesystem that I > knew worked, then I chrooted into the filesystem I was debugging and ran > init manually. Turns out it was an "Illegal instruction" exception because I > used a compiler with the wrong abi.... > > So basically, if you can, boot the system by whatever other means, then use > the chroot command on your manually mounted NFS. > > Hope that helps, > -Chris > _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
