init hangs

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Wednesday 21 November 2007 07:20, Saravanan Chanemouganandam wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am having problem in booting my arm pxa270 target using the pre built
> ( buildroot uclibc) "root_fs_arm.ext2.bz2". The linux 2.6.16 image boots
> well and hangs after mounting the root filesystem through nfs
> ....
> ....
> VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem).
> Freeing init memory: 116K
>
> It works fine for the glibc rootfs come with the board. Can any body
> precise me why it boots well with glibc rootfs and hangs with uclibc
> rootfs?

Usual tactic in debugging this kind of problem
is to build "Hello world" program, statically linked,
boot with init=/path/to/hello_world and see whether
message appears.
If it works, proceed with something bigger, e.g. init=/bin/sh.
If it doesn't, you probably have toolchain problems.
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