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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: Good news and bad news
From: "captian_rm" <>
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 14:26:28 -0000
--- In  Christopher Friedt <> wrote:
>
> Isn't there some strange thing you have to do in order to use busybox?
> 
> I thought for the initrd one had to use initrd=/proc/self, no?
> 
> Maybe that's way off the mark.
> 
> Try running something simple after you have yourself rooted in the 
> initramfs, like '/bin/busybox ls /'
> 
> 
> ~/Chris
> 
> 
> captian_rm wrote:
> > The good news is I can boot to linux-2.6.20-rc5. Thanks for all your
> > help. I moved over to uClib to shrink the initramfs image and it
boots.
> > The problem is with busybox. For my init for the initramfs I did a
basic
> > hello world program. It worked!!! But busybox just sits there. Any
ideas?
> > 
> >

Yeap busybox works if I call busybox straight!!! Its one of those
chicken and egg problems. First app is linuxrc which calls /bin/sh
which calls busybox to mount /proc but we need proc mounted before
anything. Same for calling /bin/sh directly.

P.S

   Anyone get the CF going under 2.6.X. I'm attempting it right now
but no luck.



 
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