Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel

5883 · 04-25-2012, 10:55 AM

Hi i was playing with mingetty in my embedded board.

there're times login get stuck because of mingetty ?
so i power cycled several times.

then i got this from my nfs boot, how can i fix it pls ?

VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem) on device 0:12.
Freeing init memory: 152K
Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. See Linux Documentation/init.txt for guidance.
[<c0039d78>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xec) from [<c033f54c>] (panic+0x54/0x178)
[<c033f54c>] (panic+0x54/0x178) from [<c002e5cc>] (init_post+0xa0/0xc4)
[<c002e5cc>] (init_post+0xa0/0xc4) from [<c0008444>] (kernel_init+0x10c/0x148)
[<c0008444>] (kernel_init+0x10c/0x148) from [<c00355f8>] (kernel_thread_exit+0x0/0x8)

Kustom42 · 04-25-2012, 11:10 AM

When your grub menu comes up edit into the kernel line parameter and add a number 3 to the end. This will set your init level to 3.

5883 · 04-25-2012, 11:51 AM

this is an embedded board,
i'm using uboot, i saw sth like this,

bootcmd=nand read 0x72200000 0x200000 0x240000; bootm 0x72200000

any suggestions pls ?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kustom42

When your grub menu comes up edit into the kernel line parameter and add a number 3 to the end. This will set your init level to 3.