Need help regarding upgrading busybox

Bernhard Fischer rep.nop at aon.at
Mon Dec 11 02:18:48 PST 2006


On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 11:19:50AM +0530, s.maiti at tcs.com wrote:
>Hi All,
>I am using linux-2.4.25 kernel and ELDK3.1 toolchain for my Custom 
>PPC(MPC8260) board. I am using the ramdisk image which is come along with 
>the ELDK.
>
>With this board is coming up.
>Now I wanted to upgrade my busybox-0.65 to busybox-1.1.3

The current stable release is 1.2.2.1

> So I installed the new busy box and copied the bin sbin and usr 
>directories  to the filesytem . When i tried to do tftp it is giving 
>following errors.
>
>Looking up port of RPC 100005/1 on 172.18.18.59
>VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem).
>Freeing unused kernel memory: 56k init
>kmod: runaway modprobe loop assumed and stopped
>kmod: runaway modprobe loop assumed and stopped
>kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-4c46, errno = 8 (endless 
>loop)
>
>
>With the old busybox it is working fine.
>
>Please kindly help me in this regard.
>
>Souvik Maiti
>Tata Consultancy Services
>Mailto: s.maiti at tcs.com
>Website: http://www.tcs.com
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Posting stuff like this crap to a publically archived mailing-list is
complete and utter nonsense.


binfmt-4c64:
Not a busybox problem. Most likely, you compiled your modules for the
wrong arch or busybox for the wrong arch.


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