Hello there, how large is your initramfs? I had issues like that with the initramfs file being bigger than 64MBs.
bye, Alex -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Christian Gmeiner Gesendet: Mittwoch, 06. April 2011 09:36 An: [email protected] Betreff: Failing to boot busybox inside initramfs Hi all. I have in the moment some troubles to boot a busybox based initramfs. The kernel boots, but fails with the following error message: [ 3.613747] NET: Registered protocol family 17 [ 3.648006] VFS: Cannot open root device "(null)" or unknown-block(8,1) [ 3.692639] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions: [ 3.752347] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,1) [ 3.812043] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.36.4 #19 [ 3.850256] Call Trace: [ 3.870090] [<c11603d1>] ? panic+0x4d/0x12a [ 3.900878] [<c11f9b4a>] ? mount_block_root+0x1ec/0x200 [ 3.937950] [<c11f9b97>] ? mount_root+0x39/0x4d [ 3.970918] [<c11f929a>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0xfc [ 4.003838] [<c11f9ce8>] ? prepare_namespace+0x13d/0x16d [ 4.041488] [<c11f938d>] ? kernel_init+0xf3/0xfc [ 4.074770] [<c1002876>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10 [ 4.198047] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 2264848813 ns) Attached are the busybox and the kernel config files. I hope somebody could give me some hints. Thanks -- Christian Gmeiner, MSc _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
