linux-kernel - Re: problem bring up initramfs and busybox

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Date:	Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:48:43 +0100
From:	Florian Fainelli <florian@...nwrt.org>
To:	myuboot@...tmail.fm
Cc:	"Ralf Baechle" <ralf@...ux-mips.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"linux-mips" <linux-mips@...ux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: problem bring up initramfs and busybox

Hi,

On Tuesday 17 November 2009 18:39:40 myuboot@...tmail.fm wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:33 +0100, "Ralf Baechle" <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
> 
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 06:21:21PM -0600, myuboot@...tmail.fm wrote:
> > > I have been struggling to bring up a MIPS 32 board with busybox with or
> > > without initramfs.
> > > The kernel stucks there without the shell coming up.
> > >
> > > [    1.153000] nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (1024 buckets, 4096 max)
> > > [    1.161000] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
> > > [    1.167000] TCP cubic registered
> > > [    1.170000] NET: Registered protocol family 17
> > > [   25.971000] Freeing unused kernel memory: 1032k freed
> > > [   39.969000] Algorithmics/MIPS FPU Emulator v1.5
> > >
> > >
> > > What I tried here is to use initramfs with statically linked busybox.
> > > The initramfs seems to be up, and runs the commands in the /init one by
> > > one, and then it goes to a inifite loop in r4k_wait at
> > > arch/mips/kernel/genex.S.
> >
> > r4k_wait is called by the idle loop.  Which means the kernel has no
> > process
> > to run so runs the idle loop.  This might be because there is no other
> > process left running or because all processes are waiting for I/O for
> > example.  So it's not uncommon that even busy systems ocasionally briefly
> > run the idle loop.  In other words, seeing the processor executing
> > r4k_wait does not necessarily mean something went wrong.  In this case -
> > also along with the other information you've provieded it's not obvious
> > what has gone wrong.
> >
> >   Ralf
> 
> According to an email from Kevin, I added a symbolic link from
> switch_root to busybox. The switch_root seems to be found now based on
> the execution sequence, but I got the following error - "Kernel panic -
> not syncing: Attempted to kill init!". This is the same error when I
> tried to start the shell without initramfs. Something must be wrong, but
> I can't quite figure out.
> 
> [    9.250000] Freeing unused kernel memory: 1032k freed
> [   10.463000] Algorithmics/MIPS FPU Emulator v1.5
> [   41.695000] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> [   41.701000] Rebooting in 3 seconds.
> 
> Thanks for your help. Andrew
> 
> (gdb) c
> Continuing.
> 
> Breakpoint 2, do_execve (filename=0x9780a000 "/init", argv=0x943dd2bc,
> envp=0x943dd230, regs=0x97819e30)
>     at fs/exec.c:1293
> 1293            retval = unshare_files(&displaced);
> (gdb) c
> Continuing.
> 
> Breakpoint 2, do_execve (filename=0x9780a000 "/sbin/switch_root",
> argv=0x4f7450, envp=0x4f7464, regs=0x97819f30)
>     at fs/exec.c:1293
> 1293            retval = unshare_files(&displaced);
> (gdb) c
> Continuing.

If you happen to use uClibc and gcc-4.4.0 or superior, make sure that you have 
that patch applied to uClibc: http://www.mail-
archive.com/uclibc@...ibc.org/msg04483.html
--
WBR, Florian
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