Init error NFS booting a Fedora 13 file system

[Erlon Cruz]

Well, acctually Im trying to use this netboot client in a virtual
machine for kernel developing purposes. I thing this seemsto be a bit
complicated. :/

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 2:20 PM,  <chris at basementcode.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 13 May 2011 13:06:40 -0300, Erlon Cruz <sombrafam at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>     Im having the following problem to configure a diskless client.
>> Everything seens to be OK. The client finds the kernel, loads the
>> parameters, mount the NFS remote dir, but still cant find init.
>> The error I get is:
>>
>> run-init: /sbin/init: No such file or directory
>> Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
>> Pid: 1 , comm: run-init Not tainted
>>
>> I know the the file system can find /sbin/init because I compiled a
>> small hello World program and compiled statically and it runs
>> normally.
>>  The question is: How can a make the real init run dynamically linked
>> or how can I compile it statically?
>>
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Erlon
>>
>
> You can get a statically linked init program using buildroot to build
> busybox. Buildroot has a "build statically" option.
> I had that problem once, I solved it by booting a local filesystem that I
> knew worked, then I chrooted into the filesystem I was debugging and ran
> init manually. Turns out it was an "Illegal instruction" exception because I
> used a compiler with the wrong abi....
>
> So basically, if you can, boot the system by whatever other means, then use
> the chroot command on your manually mounted NFS.
>
> Hope that helps,
> -Chris
>