Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found

[Baruch Siach]

Hi Ellis,

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 05:18:22PM +0100, Ellis Andrew wrote:
> After a lot of searching with Google I have found this is a common problem, 
> unfortunately none of the solutions I have found, fix the problem.
> 
> The original error I got was:
> 
> Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel.
> 
> The command line option was:
> root=/dev/mtdblock3 rootfstype=jffs2 rw console=ttyMCS mem=64M at 0x0
> 
> I after digging around with google, I found a suggestion which I tried, I made my command line:
> root=/dev/mtdblock3 rootfstype=jffs2 rw console=ttyMCS mem=64M at 0x0 init=/sbin/init panic=4
> 
> But I now get the following error:
> 
> Freeing init memory: 88K
> Failed to execute /sbin/init.  Attempting defaults...
> Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel.
> 
> I can see that the Root drive is being mounted.
> 
> The contents of the init file is:
> 
> #!/bin/busybox ash
> /bin/busybox mount -t sysfs /dev/sys /sys
> /bin/busybox mount -t proc  /proc
> /bin/busybox mount -t devpts /dev/pts
> # Populate /dev according to /sys
> /bin/busybox mdev -s
> /bin/busybox --install -s
> /linuxrc
> exec /sbin/init "$@"   </dev/console >/dev/console 2>&1
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this please? 

The most common reason for this failure is that your root filesystem layout is 
not what you think it is. Try booting into initramfs and mounting your jffs2 
filesystem from there to examine it directly on your running system.

baruch


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