On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 02:56:47PM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to get some arm64 up and running a bit but cannot use > loader. I have an MD_ROOT embedded in the kernel with /rescue on it. > I set INIT_PATH=/rescue/sh . > > However that doesn't seem to work: > > start_init: trying /rescue/sh > init died (signal 0, exit 0) > panic: Going nowhere without my init! > > Anyone any ideas?
Kernel does not set up the standard file descriptors for stdin/out/err for init. When you try to directly exec /rescue/sh (or /bin/sh), it cannot perform any io.
