From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751283AbXAPQJ4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:09:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751284AbXAPQJ4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:09:56 -0500 Received: from web50301.mail.yahoo.com ([206.190.38.55]:22110 "HELO web50301.mail.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751283AbXAPQJ4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:09:56 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 400 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:09:55 EST DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=0FNpUUY/JxvxsvnHO+nzrhR/BecvfLh96NfpZT0rV15HuYdq8xRy/MfCOe73LJfBqDI4+E2AZGZxqVAasZuDDfW6BTRdM5Ir9GH71yHDccpHuAngoDeKNDn37Tfaa5DkjqIS4xssbzyG/uFyY5lYfw96SzJIC5RRCiZsPh6ZDcY=; X-YMail-OSG: tSk6a0wVM1lDJoF9WFJjhPfj79gF40kixIAx9QnZm16JIPfxZngiAS0o9.ASEhEugOQhJQjjXD5pt5PhlExfJBt49qd.x5v6N7Vl2mgDqxtsK776hUp79CrkP6kt41Me85J3fvEJHzf3XeZ3mce1mc.BT_dl7oWvHuOTpkWmxFR1DRioPhJNRBqx Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:03:14 -0800 (PST) From: pankaj takawale Subject: pxe booting initrd - kernel panic: No init found To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-ID: <774824.83968.qm@web50301.mail.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I have compiled & built linux 2.4 kernel, then I created initrd image using mkinitrd. Then I mounted this initrd, injected /bin/sh & libc libraries from system into initrd. I copied newly built vmlinuz & initrd images to pxe servert tftp directory. When I pxe boot my bare-metal machine with these vmlinuz & initrd , I receive "kernel panic: No Init found" After adding debug messages into linux kernel (init/main.c) I found that execve("/bin/sh"..) is returning error & errno is EIO (I/O error) I could see that root filesystem is mounted successfully. What causes this error? Is my initrd is not successfully mounted into ram using ramdisk image? ____________________________________________________________________________________ Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-index