ANDROID: Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

[yogi]

Hi All

I am porting Android 2.2 on following hardware.

HARDWARE:
ARM11 Family 32bits core x 3 MPCore CPU

OS:
Already running 2.6.33 based Monta Vista Linux

I took out the Android changes from Android kernel (2.6.32.9 based
kernel) and applied the changes to MV Linux.

Now MV Linux kernel with Android changes is compiling fine and board
is able to bring up with existing MV Root file system, I am able to
see some ASHMEM, BINDER device files.

Then I compiled the FROYO 2.2 and got ramdisk.img, userdata.img and
system.img.
I extracted these files at one place and tried to deploy this file
system using NFS and USB.
But I get this error:

[ 4.590000] IP-Config: Complete:
[ 4.600000] device=eth0, addr=192.168.2.55,
mask=255.255.255.0, gw=255.255.255.255,
[ 4.600000] host=192.168.2.55, domain=, nis-domain=(none),
[ 4.610000] bootserver=255.255.255.255,
rootserver=255.255.255.255, rootpath=
[ 4.620000] Waiting for root device /dev/sda1...
[ 7.220000] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access JetFlash Transcend
4GB 8.07 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 7.230000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 7843840 512-byte logical blocks:
(4.01 GB/3.74 GiB)
[ 7.240000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 7.240000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 7.250000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 7.260000] sda: sda1
[ 7.760000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 7.760000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 7.780000] EXT2-fs (sda1): warning: mounting unchecked fs, running
e2fsck is recommended
[ 7.790000] VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) on device 8:1.
[ 7.790000] Freeing init memory: 144K
[ 7.800000] Warning: unable to open an initial console.
[ 7.820000] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
[ 7.820000] [<c0033b90>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xdc) from
[<c03a1c10>] (panic+0x58/0x130)
[ 7.830000] [<c03a1c10>] (panic+0x58/0x130) from [<c00476d8>]
(do_exit+0x70/0x610)
[ 7.840000] [<c00476d8>] (do_exit+0x70/0x610) from [<c0047d08>]
(do_group_exit+0x90/0xc4)
[ 7.850000] [<c0047d08>] (do_group_exit+0x90/0xc4) from
[<c00528c4>] (get_signal_to_deliver+0x348/0x380)
[ 7.860000] [<c00528c4>] (get_signal_to_deliver+0x348/0x380) from
[<c002fcc0>] (do_notify_resume+0x74/0x600)
[ 7.870000] [<c002fcc0>] (do_notify_resume+0x74/0x600) from
[<c002d0ec>] (work_pending+0x1c/0x20)
[ 7.880000] CPU0: stopping
[ 7.880000] [<c0033b90>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xdc) from
[<c002c2b8>] (do_IPI+0xc8/0x13c)
[ 7.880000] [<c002c2b8>] (do_IPI+0xc8/0x13c) from [<c002cc4c>]
(__irq_svc+0x4c/0xe4)
[ 7.880000] Exception stack(0xc04ddf80 to 0xc04ddfc8)
[ 7.880000] df80: 00000000 00000000 c04ddfc8 00000000 c04dc000
c00247d0 c04dc000 c04eddcc
[ 7.880000] dfa0: 800232a0 410fb024 80023238 00000000 00000003
c04ddfc8 c002e2e0 c002e2e4
[ 7.880000] dfc0: 60000013 ffffffff
[ 7.880000] [<c002cc4c>] (__irq_svc+0x4c/0xe4) from [<c002e2e4>]
(default_idle+0x24/0x28)
[ 7.880000] [<c002e2e4>] (default_idle+0x24/0x28) from [<c002eb20>]
(cpu_idle+0x74/0xcc)
[ 7.880000] [<c002eb20>] (cpu_idle+0x74/0xcc) from [<c0008a88>]
(start_kernel+0x250/0x2a8)
[ 7.880000] [<c0008a88>] (start_kernel+0x250/0x2a8) from
[<80008080>] (0x80008080)
[ 7.880000] CPU1: stopping
[ 7.880000] [<c0033b90>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xdc) from
[<c002c2b8>] (do_IPI+0xc8/0x13c)
[ 7.880000] [<c002c2b8>] (do_IPI+0xc8/0x13c) from [<c002cc4c>]
(__irq_svc+0x4c/0xe4)
[ 7.880000] Exception stack(0xcf849fa0 to 0xcf849fe8)
[ 7.880000] 9fa0: 00000000 00000000 cf849fe8 00000000 cf848000
0000001f 00c0387d c0518f44
[ 7.880000] 9fc0: 00000000 410fb024 80023238 00000000 00000003
cf849fe8 c002e2e0 c002e2e4
[ 7.880000] 9fe0: 60000013 ffffffff
[ 7.880000] [<c002cc4c>] (__irq_svc+0x4c/0xe4) from [<c002e2e4>]
(default_idle+0x24/0x28)
[ 7.880000] [<c002e2e4>] (default_idle+0x24/0x28) from [<c002eb20>]
(cpu_idle+0x74/0xcc)
[ 7.880000] [<c002eb20>] (cpu_idle+0x74/0xcc) from [<80008080>]
(0x80008080)

Regards
Yogi

[Brad Davis]

Probably not enough RAM. According to what I've read (and my own
experience) you might be able to run in 128m but 192m is a better
bet. I have a small footprint - bare system running in 64m but almost
all apps/services have been remove...

[yogi]

I removed everything from init.rc and putting echo something there,
but then also it is crashing and it is not printing the echo message.
Is there any problem in mounting the file system.

[abhayadev s.]

did you fix it? if not please read this, http://kerneltrap.org/node/6854