Hi all, I've built a zImage.initrd (which should be OK, because it boots) and I burned it into the flash of my EP405 board.
This is the boot output: loaded at: FF840000 FFA8C1D4 relocated to: 00400000 0064C1D4 board data at: 00649128 00649144 relocated to: 004053B4 004053D0 zimage at: 00405910 0048D141 initrd at: 0048E000 00648F81 avail ram: 0064D000 01000000 Linux/PPC load: root=/dev/ram init=/bin/bash Uncompressing Linux...done. Now booting the kernel id mach(): done MMU:enter MMU:hw init MMU:mapin MMU:mapin_ram done MMU:setio MMU:exit setup_arch: enter setup_arch: bootmem arch: exit Linux version 2.4.21-pre6 (root at toni) (gcc version 2.95.4 20010319 (prerelease/franzo/20011204)) #17 wo apr 2 12:01:21 CEST 2003 On node 0 totalpages: 4096 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 0 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram init=/bin/bash Calibrating delay loop... 199.47 BogoMIPS Memory: 13000k available (984k kernel code, 340k data, 76k init, 0k highmem) Dentry cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI: Probing PCI hardware Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket OCP uart ver 1.6.2 init complete Starting kswapd pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled ttyS00 at 0xef600300 (irq = 0) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0xef600400 (irq = 1) is a 16550A RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize loop: loaded (max 8 devices) OCP Reset timeout #2! OCP Reset timeout #1! eth0: No PHY device found. removing net dev NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 1771k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 76k init Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. So as you can see, the kernel parameters are root=/dev/ram init=/bin/bash, but why does the kernel panic on No init!? /bin/bash does exist in the initrd. Anybody an idea where to look? # file bin/bash bin/bash: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, PowerPC or cisco 4500, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped Needed libs are in /lib. -- Toni Van Remortel - Scientific Researcher D-science lab (Hogeschool Antwerpen) Phone: +32 (0) 3 205 61 72 Fax : +32 (0) 3 205 61 95 Current project: LinEmb: RealTime and Embedded Linux (http://linemb.d-sciencelab.com) ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
