Re: [uml-user] self-built root filesystem failed to boot

[Michael R. <mc...@sa...>]

Han <kee...@gm...> wrote:
    > I've built a root filesystem based off Debian Squeeze because I wanted to
    > include all built (e.g. gcc) tools in.  However,  i was not able to boot the
    > UML with this rootfs due to this error:

    > <snip>
    > Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel.
    > </snip>

    > here is how I ran the UML:

    > ./linux ubda=/nobackup/hxu2/uml/debian-root-fs mem=128M 

Did you include ext3 or whatever file system you built the image with?
What if you say, "root=/dev/ubda"?   While you can sometimes get away without
initramfs now, it's getting harder and harder.

I have broken off most of the Freeswan/Openswan UML build environment off
as a separate project at:
   https://github.com/mcr/uml-network-testing-infrastructure

This likely doesn't work with kernels newer than 2.6.26, but I do have fixes
in other trees for that, I just haven't moved things over.  If it is useful
to someone, I will spend the time.

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