Yes, check it with "nios2-linux-uclibc-flthdr ~/rootfs/bin/busybox" .
rebuild busybox with,
cd ~/buildroot
make -C build_nios2/busybox clean
make# prepare root fs
rm -rf ~/rootfs
cp -a ~/buildroot/build_nios2/root/* ~/rootfs
cd ~/rootfs# remove include and lib to save space# the dev nodes are generated via ~/download/rootfs_list
rm -rf dev usr/include usr/lib# you may use this instead of the one from buildroot
cp ~/download/inittab etc
nios2linux-1.4.zip was not in previous build.zip, it was too big.
Please find it here,
http://forum.niosforum.com/downloads/1_4/nios2linux-1.4.zip (
http://forum.niosforum.com/downloads/1_4/nios2linux-1.4.zip)