On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Marwa Hamza <marwahamz...@gmail.com> wrote: > the output of this command > ./i386-softmmu/qemu-system-i386 -M pc -kernel >> >> /home/marwa/Bureau/lauterbach/i386_qemu/linux-4.1.18/arch/i386/boot/bzImage >> -initrd >> /home/marwa/Bureau/lauterbach/i386_qemu/busybox-1.21.0/rootfs.img.gz >> -append “root=/dev/ram rdinit=/sbin/init” >> > starting init :/sbin/init exists but couldn't execute it (error -8) > starting init : /bin/sh exists but couldn't execute it (error -8) > kernel panic not syncing : no working init found , try passing init= option > to kernel >
I don't think this is a qemu problem. From the error message it looks like init in your busybox root image is not configured properly. I would focus on finding why the init file is not able to run(permissions, maybe?). -- Pranith
