External commands not found in initramfs

[Gilles Espinasse]

Selon michael <michael at araneidae.co.uk>:

> On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Pedro Aguilar wrote:
> > After loading the initramfs, I have some external commands (not part of
> > busybox) that I want to execute, but I'm getting the following error:
> >
> > # /usr/bin/my_command
> > sh: /usr/bin/my_command: not found
> >
> > I'm sure the commands are inside the initramfs :)
> >
> > Do you have any idea of what it is causing this behaviour?
> > Am I missing something?
>
> One possibility which has bitten me: is it possible that some of the
> libraries needed by my_command are missing?  That seems to be the loader's
> friendly way of saying "some random important file not found"!

Possibily. I think I had that once.

Check the dependencies with
readelf -d <path-of-my-command> | grep NEEDED

Check too if the file is executable.

Gilles