linux-kernel - Re: Q: linux failed to execute /init?

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Message-ID: <479A21EA.4040201@zytor.com>
Date:	Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:52:42 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Jack Harvard <jack.harvard@...glemail.com>
CC:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Q: linux failed to execute /init?

Jack Harvard wrote:
> This is reproduceable and it happens every time. IMHO, I also suspect
> this could be caused by some obscure timing issues, as the kernel is
> booting up from an FPGA-prototyped SoC, the same Linux image was
> running fine on a previous build of FPGA-prototyped SoC,  but it's
> coming across this /init failed problem repeatedly on the currently
> running newly built bit file.

Sounds like a problem in your drivers, and/or your memory controller. 
Especially the memory controller.

	-hpa
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