Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 May 2005 13:41:35 -0400 | From | Wakko Warner <> | Subject | initramfs |
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I'm having problems with this. I apparently have a cpio archive that the kernel likes. I am starting via grub with basically: kernel /mykernel initrd /mycpiofile
At first, I got "can't mount root". A little reading in main.c has it looking for /init (shouldn't this be /bin/init instead?)
I moved my ./bin/init to . in my init filesystem tree and recreated the cpio. my ./init script is a "#!/bin/busybox ash" script.
running cpio -tv, I see: ... -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 452508 May 5 14:33 bin/busybox ... -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1328 May 9 15:46 init ...
Now I see a message saying: Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
I did that. According to the source, init= is overridden when /init exists.
I'd like to get off the initrd ramdisk style to save some more on space.
I assume it is populating properly since also I don't see the initial console warning message.
Kernel: vanilla 2.6.12-rc4 compiled with -Os with debian gcc 3.3.5-1
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