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20 years ago

busybox version 5.1 won't run

I built the busybox in the Nios II Version 5.1 for Windows distribution, as described in the Nios II Linux Reference Guide document. I add it to the filesystem I load into the FLASH as new-busybox, s...
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20 years ago

Well, I have made some progress. I downloaded the source code for version 1.01 from busybox.net and after massaging the Makefile and Rules.mak to correclty find the include and library files, I got it to build. I put it into my romfs and it basically runs. It does not run when linked as init at boot time, but I can run it as the target of the links for many apps. I am still running the distributed busybox version:

init started: BusyBox v1.00-pre8 (2005.06.20-12:07+0000) multi-call binary

at init time, as init.exe gives a init: exec failed message after loading the ram filesystems. At least I can control the applications I support now.

Any ideas why the version 1.01 will not run as init?