just before i pack it in for the day, i'm still grappling with why i can't get the linuxppc-2.5 kernel to start the init/minit program on my 8xx board. very curious, since it used to be able to, even if it hung immediately afterwards.
for more feedback, i added a printk() call to the run_init_process() function in init/main.c to see what it thought it was doing. the tail end of my boot sequence was: ... Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,9600 rw root=/dev/ram0 init=/sbin/minit ... snip ... RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). <-- good Mounted devfs on /dev <-- also good Freeing unused kernel memory: 52k init Trying run_init_process with /sbin/minit <-- hmm, that should work Trying run_init_process with /sbin/init Trying run_init_process with /etc/init Trying run_init_process with /bin/init Trying run_init_process with /bin/sh Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. at this point, i'm out of ideas, and in need of a beer. thanks to everyone who's provided advice so far. rday ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
