not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000004 ?

Shawn Guo shawn.guo at linaro.org
Thu May 7 04:32:41 PDT 2015


On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 11:30:25AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Hi Shawn,
> (Sorry for late reply, I's been a vacation in Japan.)
> 
> 
> 2015-05-06 17:56 GMT+09:00 Shawn Guo <shawn.guo at linaro.org>:
> > On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Shawn Guo <shawn.guo at linaro.org> wrote:
> >> On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 12:34:30PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> >>> Hello experts,
> >>> I hope this is the correct ML to ask this question.
> >>>
> >>> I am struggling to port Linux-4.0-rc7 onto my SoC/board,
> >>> based on ARM cortex-A9 (single CPU), but the kernel fails to boot
> >>> with the error:
> >>> "not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000004"
> >>
> >> Hi Masahiro,
> >>
> >> Have you track it down to the cause?  I'm asking because I'm seeing the
> >> same issue with v4.0 on a vendor single Cortex-A9 SoC.
> 
> Yes, I have already solved my problem.
> 
> In my case,
> 
>  - The interrupt number for the UART device was wrong.  Fixed it.
>  - I regenerated the initramdisk with Buildroot
> 
> and then I could boot the kernel successfully.

Thanks for the update, Masahiro.

Shawn



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