[fedora-arm] Fedora on Cubox, getting close. Pointers needed

[Peter Robinson]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Jurgen Kramer <gtmkramer at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> I am trying to get Fedora running on the cubox. I am getting close but
> no cigar yet.
>
> Route followed:
> - build cubox kernel and initramfs (from cubox git) on Fedora 17 ARM
> (VM)
> - convert Fedora initramfs img to u-boot uInitrd
> - use F18 ARM HFP rootfs (latest nighties)
>
> The resulting kernel boots just fine and it seems initramfs is being
> used but it ends with a panic:
>
> Freeing init memory: 192K
> dracut: dracut-018-98.git20120813.fc17
> udevd[592]: starting version 182
> dracut: Starting plymouth daemon
> GCouldn't open /dev/ttyS0
> GGEXT4-fs (mmcblk0p1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts:
> (null)
> dracut: Checking ext4: /dev/mmcblk0p1
> dracut: issuing e2fsck -a  /dev/mmcblk0p1
> dracut: cuboxf18arm: clean, 98087/1957888 files, 788822/7816704 blocks
> dracut: Remounting /dev/mmcblk0p1 with -o rw
> EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts:
> (null)
> dracut: Mounted root filesystem /dev/mmcblk0p1
> dracut: Switching root
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000100
>
> Any hints on what could cause this? Maybe some potential magic kernel
> config options I forgot?
>
> Bootargs I used: console=ttyS0,115200n8 vmalloc=384M rw
> root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rootwait

It's not finding the root filesystem. Is it on partition 1? You don't
have a /boot filesystem there? The other thing you can try is to use
either the blkid or volume name on the root file system and see if the
kernel can find it from that.

Peter