Re: [User-mode-linux-devel] init weirdness

[Gerald B. <gbr...@mi...>]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 01:19:55PM -0500, Jeff Dike wrote:
> If -pre3 does the same thing, did it ever work?  If so, what did you change :-)

I haven't ever gotten it to work and haven't changed anything.

> That ls makes it look like you grabbed the Debian package.  Is it still the 
> stock root_fs, or did you do anything to it?  I just booted up that root_fs to 
> check, and it works fine for me.

Yep, it's the debian package.

> I'm going to back off my earlier claim that it doesn't matter what you're 
> booting from.  I can't think of anything else that makes any sense.  There's 
> no way that it should be trying to exec ld.so, which is what I think that 
> error message is saying.

When executing any dynamically linked executable, ld.so is run to link in all
the librarys the program uses.

> Can you try making and booting a tiny filesystem with init, the shared 
> libraries that it needs, ld.so, and maybe an inittab?  Just enough stuff to 
> get init up and running a little.  If that works, then that would make it look 
> like something's wrong with the root filesystem.

It does the same thing with any dynamically linked executable used as init,
if i use a statically linked executable as init, that works.  But I then cannot
execute anything.  If i try, the kernel panics with the message "Bogus address
in segv"

				-- Gerald