[BusyBox] Busybox init.

Steve Iribarne steve.iribarne at dilithiumnetworks.com
Mon Nov 8 21:51:52 UTC 2004


Yep.. unfortuneately running sysvinit works.  So for now I am going to
use it.  However, I would really like to get to the bottom of why the
busybox init doesn't work for me.

-stv 

-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: busybox-bounces at mail.busybox.net 
-> [mailto:busybox-bounces at mail.busybox.net] On Behalf Of Steve Iribarne
-> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 7:42 AM
-> To: busybox at mail.busybox.net
-> Subject: RE: [BusyBox] Busybox init.
-> 
->  Hi Bernd and Hiroshi Ito,
-> 
-> 
-> -> There is nothing wrong, Init is the parent of all processes.
-> -> AFAIK Init "only" called from kernel and accept one 
-> running init, and 
-> -> on your host is allready running a init
-> -> 
-> 
-> Yep.  I read this on the man page.  However, when I loaded 
-> my ramdisk and it started hanging when init got called, 
-> that's why I started trying to to chroot.
-> 
-> My inittab only has one line in it.
-> 
-> si::sysinit:/etc/rc.init
-> 
-> And my rc.init only has a few lines in it...
-> 
-> PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
-> export $PATH
-> 
-> mount /proc
-> mount -n -o remount,rw /
-> 
-> >etc/mtab
-> 
-> mount -f /
-> 
-> /bin/sh
-> 
-> Hiroshi Ito - You do some really complicated stuff, I think. 
->  I really just need a very easy boot up.
-> 
-> 
-> I really want to use busybox init.  Thanks for all your replies.
-> 
-> 
-> -stv
-> 



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