[OE-core] /sbin/init not found in oe-core

[Mark Hatle]

On 5/25/12 3:22 PM, Brandon Stafford wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to switch from OE classic to the new openembedded-core.
> Using the latest commit on the denzil branch, I've successfully made a
> meta layer and built a filesystem that looks reasonably similar to the
> old one. But, it seems like something has changed in the boot process.
>
> As the last step in initramfs/init.sh, after mounting the filesystem,
> the kernel would attempt to execute /sbin/init like this:
>
>      exec switch_root -c /dev/console /mnt/root /sbin/init
>
> With the same old kernel and my new filesystem, this occurs:
>
>      switch_root: can't execute '/sbin/init': No such file or directory
>
> When I look at the filesystem, /sbin/init is, of course, nowhere to be found.
>
> Has the boot process changed? What should I be doing instead of
> calling /sbin/init?

You should check your new rootfs.  is there anything called init on it, even in 
a different directory?  Are you using meta-oe and systemd?

You should have some type of an init in the new filesystem.. if not, then 
something is wrong with your image and you'll need to diagnose that first.

--Mark

> Cheers,
> Brandon
> --
> Brandon Stafford
> Rascal Micro: small computers for art and science
> Somerville, MA, USA
>
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