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