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20 years ago

/bin/init hangs

hi all, I am trying to boot uclinux on 2s60 board. where my kernel is hanging moment it calls /bin/init. I have build uclinux with changed memory layout where base addresses and irq numbe...
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20 years ago

Some suggestions:

1. Sometimes the kernel can't necessarily detect what the filesystem type is on flash so you might add rootfstype=jffs2 or whatever filesystem type you are using to the kernel commandline.

2. You may not have compiled in the block driver for flash so you need to have at the very least the CONFIG_MTD_BLOCK=y in your .config file.

3. The kernel also needs to have the filesystem type used compiled into it.