Thanks Rahul for your very quick answer.<br>Glad to hear this.<br>So, when does the message "VFS: Mounted root" appear?<br>Maybe when using init ramdisk (initrd) support?<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/8/30 Rahul Bedarkar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rpal143@gmail.com" target="_blank">rpal143@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">yes root file system is mounted correctly. It is just it didn't find init.<br>
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On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 8:10 PM, stl <<a href="mailto:st.lambert02@gmail.com">st.lambert02@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hello all,<br>
> if I try to boot Linux 2.6.37 by supplying a configuration file to the<br>
> kernel to create initramfs_data.cpio,<br>
> (without any compression), is it normal that the kernel doesn't print the<br>
> well known message:<br>
><br>
> VFS: Mounted root (<type> filesystem)<br>
><br>
> even if the boot reaches the point where it tries to run init executable?<br>
> Does it mean that my rootfs is not correctly mounted?<br>
><br>
> Here is the kernel output printed during the boot:<br>
><br>
> <5>[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.37+ (gcc version 4.6.3 20120816 (GCC) )<br>
> #57 Thu Aug 30 12:00:00 CEST 2012<br>
> [ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping off.<br>
> Total pages: 2032<br>
> [ 0.000000] Kernel command line:<br>
> [ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 32 (order: -5, 128 bytes)<br>
> [ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)<br>
> [ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)<br>
> [ 0.000000] Memory: 7656k/8196k available (1098k kernel code, 536k<br>
> reserved, 2096117k data, 12k init)<br>
> [ 0.000000] SLUB: Genslabs=15, HWalign=16, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0,<br>
> CPUs=1, Nodes=1<br>
> [ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:64<br>
> [ 0.000000] Timer start: timer interrupt every 10 ms<br>
> [ 0.000000] console [ttyS0] enabled<br>
> [42949372.980000] Calibrating delay loop... 0.00 BogoMIPS (lpj=0)<br>
> [42949373.180000] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301<br>
> [42949373.200000] Security Framework initialized<br>
> [42949373.210000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512<br>
> [42949373.260000] khelper used greatest stack depth: 7548 bytes left<br>
> [42949373.340000] kworker/u:0 used greatest stack depth: 7324 bytes left<br>
> [42949373.500000] bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0<br>
> [42949373.630000] kworker/u:0 used greatest stack depth: 7260 bytes left<br>
> [42949374.630000] kworker/u:0 used greatest stack depth: 7180 bytes left<br>
> [42949375.250000] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.2<br>
> [42949375.270000] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)<br>
> [42949375.390000] msgmni has been set to 16<br>
> [42949375.420000] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded<br>
> (major 253)<br>
> [42949375.430000] io scheduler noop registered<br>
> [42949375.440000] io scheduler deadline registered<br>
> [42949375.460000] io scheduler cfq registered (default)<br>
> [42949375.490000] Architecture Specific Serial Driver<br>
> [42949375.500000] ttyS0 at MMIO 0x40001000 (irq = 5) is a arch_uart<br>
> [42949375.700000] loop: module loaded<br>
> [42949375.720000] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice<br>
> [42949375.780000] ------------[ cut here ]------------<br>
> [42949375.800000] WARNING: at fs/proc/generic.c:589 .LBE364+0x0/0x2()<br>
> [42949375.810000] proc_dir_entry '/proc/schedstat' already registered<br>
> [42949375.820000] Modules linked in:<br>
> [42949375.830000] ---[ end trace 31baa4bbf69a8bbc ]---<br>
> [42949375.850000] Failed to execute /init<br>
> [42949375.870000] Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing<br>
> init= option to kernel. See Linux Documentation/init.txt for guidance.<br>
><br>
> In my opinion, it seems to be correct because the following message doesn't<br>
> appear:<br>
><br>
> Warning: unable to open an initial console<br>
><br>
> This means that the file /dev/console has been found, so that the rootfs has<br>
> been correctly mounted, isn't it?<br>
><br>
><br>
> Thanks in advance for your help!<br>
><br>
><br>
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