Well, acctually Im trying to use this netboot client in a virtual
machine for kernel developing purposes. I thing this seemsto be a bit
complicated. :/

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 2:20 PM,  [off-list ref] wrote:

On Fri, 13 May 2011 13:06:40 -0300, Erlon Cruz [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Hi all,
? ? Im having the?following?problem to configure a diskless client.
Everything seens to be OK. The client finds the kernel, loads the
parameters, mount the NFS remote dir, but still cant find init.
The error I get is:

run-init: /sbin/init: No such file or directory
Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Pid: 1 , comm: run-init Not tainted

I know the the file system can find /sbin/init because I compiled a
small hello World program and compiled statically and it runs
normally.
?The question is: How can a make the real init run dynamically linked
or how can I compile it statically?


Kind regards,
Erlon

You can get a statically linked init program using buildroot to build
busybox. Buildroot has a "build statically" option.
I had that problem once, I solved it by booting a local filesystem that I
knew worked, then I chrooted into the filesystem I was debugging and ran
init manually. Turns out it was an "Illegal instruction" exception because I
used a compiler with the wrong abi....

So basically, if you can, boot the system by whatever other means, then use
the chroot command on your manually mounted NFS.

Hope that helps,
-Chris