yes root file system is mounted correctly. It is just it didn't find init. On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 8:10 PM, stl <st.lambert02@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello all, > if I try to boot Linux 2.6.37 by supplying a configuration file to the > kernel to create initramfs_data.cpio, > (without any compression), is it normal that the kernel doesn't print the > well known message: > > VFS: Mounted root (<type> filesystem) > > even if the boot reaches the point where it tries to run init executable? > Does it mean that my rootfs is not correctly mounted? > > Here is the kernel output printed during the boot: > > <5>[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.37+ (gcc version 4.6.3 20120816 (GCC) ) > #57 Thu Aug 30 12:00:00 CEST 2012 > [ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping off. > Total pages: 2032 > [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: > [ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 32 (order: -5, 128 bytes) > [ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) > [ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) > [ 0.000000] Memory: 7656k/8196k available (1098k kernel code, 536k > reserved, 2096117k data, 12k init) > [ 0.000000] SLUB: Genslabs=15, HWalign=16, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, > CPUs=1, Nodes=1 > [ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:64 > [ 0.000000] Timer start: timer interrupt every 10 ms > [ 0.000000] console [ttyS0] enabled > [42949372.980000] Calibrating delay loop... 0.00 BogoMIPS (lpj=0) > [42949373.180000] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301 > [42949373.200000] Security Framework initialized > [42949373.210000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 > [42949373.260000] khelper used greatest stack depth: 7548 bytes left > [42949373.340000] kworker/u:0 used greatest stack depth: 7324 bytes left > [42949373.500000] bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0 > [42949373.630000] kworker/u:0 used greatest stack depth: 7260 bytes left > [42949374.630000] kworker/u:0 used greatest stack depth: 7180 bytes left > [42949375.250000] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.2 > [42949375.270000] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) > [42949375.390000] msgmni has been set to 16 > [42949375.420000] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded > (major 253) > [42949375.430000] io scheduler noop registered > [42949375.440000] io scheduler deadline registered > [42949375.460000] io scheduler cfq registered (default) > [42949375.490000] Architecture Specific Serial Driver > [42949375.500000] ttyS0 at MMIO 0x40001000 (irq = 5) is a arch_uart > [42949375.700000] loop: module loaded > [42949375.720000] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice > [42949375.780000] ------------[ cut here ]------------ > [42949375.800000] WARNING: at fs/proc/generic.c:589 .LBE364+0x0/0x2() > [42949375.810000] proc_dir_entry '/proc/schedstat' already registered > [42949375.820000] Modules linked in: > [42949375.830000] ---[ end trace 31baa4bbf69a8bbc ]--- > [42949375.850000] Failed to execute /init > [42949375.870000] Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing > init= option to kernel. See Linux Documentation/init.txt for guidance. > > In my opinion, it seems to be correct because the following message doesn't > appear: > > Warning: unable to open an initial console > > This means that the file /dev/console has been found, so that the rootfs has > been correctly mounted, isn't it? > > > Thanks in advance for your help! > > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies