By the way this ( mount the system and then chrooting) is what I happen with initramfs ins't? It must be some way to change the root from the ramfs to the new root fs without setting the paths to 'init' s required libraries. Makes sense? On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Erlon Cruz <sombrafam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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
