Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756665AbYAYPe3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:34:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753471AbYAYPeV (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:34:21 -0500 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.237]:38186 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752948AbYAYPeU convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:34:20 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=TJx70pyLKlFNWV0+HrNIQBKkZknzP/YT7PIw/xrVGsMCJotvU45iYkEdW/AawhGZNCIJNFgwT6g2xirQTa8uQ5X+byD1qIGEGP00iPbQDL3uTAKWYYewW/apDCByH9aeoKfIPPvZc7SLYkD2pHFr5Rn3Zb4VR4ENY/mMucH4TbU= Message-ID: Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:34:16 +0000 From: "Jack Harvard" To: "Jan Engelhardt" Subject: Re: Q: linux failed to execute /init? Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1674 Lines: 44 On Jan 25, 2008 3:02 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > On Jan 25 2008 14:39, Jack Harvard wrote: > >> On Jan 25 2008 13:40, Jack Harvard wrote: > >> >Hi, > >> > > >> >I'm trying to boot Linux, but the /init process failed. Here is the > >> >info: > >> > > >> >=FF<6>/init exit code: -14 > >> >/init exit code: -14 > >> ><4>Failed to execute /init > >> >Failed to execute /init > >> > <6>/sbin/init exit code: -14 > >> > > >> >Just wondering what do those different exit codes mean? > >> > >> asm-generic/errno-base.h:#define EFAULT 14 /* Bad address */ > >> > > > >Also, before the init process hung up and printed out /init exit code: > >-14, it printed out the following symbol > >? > >Which doesn't make any sense to me, just wondering what could have > >caused this? it's unlikely due to baud rate and printed out something > >unreadable. > > ? is 255. While this could indicate a serial transmission error (my > guess: bad timing), printing -14 repeatedly certainly does not. > Is the ? reproducable, does it happen every time? > This is reproduceable and it happens every time. IMHO, I also suspect this could be caused by some obscure timing issues, as the kernel is booting up from an FPGA-prototyped SoC, the same Linux image was running fine on a previous build of FPGA-prototyped SoC, but it's coming across this /init failed problem repeatedly on the currently running newly built bit file. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/