Thanks for replying to my message. Yes the solution was putting the shared libraries used by the executables in the lib directory. gita. >I am trying to use initrd. I have copied a few executables like ls, > >mount etc. to the bin directory in the initrd - disk. Upon booting > >although linuxrc gets executed it does not find the executables. > > > >I have tried setting path variable in linuxrc too. Has anyone seen > >this problem and what is the solution? > > > >I am following the instructions in Paul Moody's miniHOWTO Embedded Linux > >1.1c - > >One approach to embedded Linux. > >http://www.linux-embedded.com/pmhowto.html > > > >I am using kernel version 2.0.36 with Redhat 5.2. > > > >Thanks, > >gita. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the command "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the message body. For more information, see <http://waste.org/mail/linux-embedded>.