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Building Tiny Linux Systems with Busybox, Part 2: Building the Kernel

Jan 01, 2001  By Bruce Perens
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How Keyboard is working when no support provided in Linux

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 11/12/2009 - 04:23.

How Keyboard is working when no support provided in Linux ?
When i booted Linux from floppy and used the ramdisk as the rootfs, everything is working fine.

But i was wondering how the keyboard is working ? No loadable drivers provided.
Also no support in Linux provided>

I am not getting the # prompt instead i am getting the $ prompet

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Submitted by K.RajaSekhar (not verified) on Mon, 05/29/2006 - 03:53.

Hai Bruce Perens,

I have followed each and every step you told in this article but i am not getting the # prompt after booting it from the floppy. Instead i am getting the $ prompt.

How to get the # prompt can you tell me the error i am donig

Thanking you,
K.RajaSekahr

Re: Building Tiny Linux Systems with Busybox, Part 2: Building t

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Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 08/04/2004 - 02:00.

Luckily he provided the list of names in almost the right format for python.
An easier way to create those links to busybox:

import os
names=["ls","ar","basename","cat","chgrp","chmod","chown","chroot","chvt","clear","cp","cut","date","dc","dd","deallocvtdf","dirname","dmesg","du","dumpkmap","dutmp","echo","false","fbset","fdflush","find","free","freeramdisk","fsck.minix","grep","gunzip","gzip","halt","head","hostid","hostname","id","init","insmod","kill","killall","length","linuxrc","ln","loadacm","loadfont","loadkmap","logger","logname","lsmod","makedevs","md5sum","mkdir","mkfifo","mkfs.minix","mknod","mkswap","mktemp","more","mount","mt","mv","nc","nslookup","ping","poweroff","printf","ps","pwd","reboot","rm","rmdir","rmmod","sed","setkeycodes", "sh", "sleep", "sort","swapoff","swapon","syn", "csyslogd", "tail", "tar", "tee", "telnet", "test", "touch", "tri", "true", "tty", "umount", "uname", "uniq", "update", "uptime", "usleep", "uudecode", "uuencode", "wc", "which", "whoami", "yes", "zcat"]
for name in names:
os.system("ln busybox "+name)

Re: Building Tiny Linux Systems with Busybox, Part 2: Building t

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Submitted by Thorsten (not verified) on Sat, 04/16/2005 - 08:06.

I did this do create the links with a debian 'busybox-static'

#!/bin/sh
#
# Thorsten Strusch 2005-01-06
#
#########################################################################
#
BUSYBOX=$(which busybox)
#
Liste=$( $BUSYBOX 2>&1 | grep -A20 Currently | grep -v Curren | sed -e '{s/\t//}' -e '{s/\n//}' -e '{s/ //}' | grep -v ^$)
export IFS=','
for i in $Liste
do ln -s $BUSYBOX $i
done
unset IFS

Re: Building Tiny Linux Systems with Busybox, Part 2: Building t

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/22/2004 - 02:00.

Or even easier:

from the busybox build dir

$ make PREFIX=../tiny-linux install-hardlinks

Re: Building Tiny Linux Systems with Busybox, Part 2: Building t

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Submitted by dragoran (not verified) on Wed, 01/28/2004 - 03:00.

Hi...
all went ok, kernel uncompressed, but then..kernel panic :(

kernel panic: unable to mount root fs on 01:00, what that is.. i gave my full memory, but .. nothing.. why? can u send me reply?

P.S.: best article(s).. thanx...

Re: Building Tiny Linux Systems with Busybox, Part 2: Building t

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 07/09/2004 - 02:00.

Im trying to make a mini floppy disk linux distro thing (if thats the right name) , i used a differant tutorial looks almost the same as this BUT .... i got the same boot error! that and something about VFS and "cramfs: wrong magic" so yeah. somethings up there, maybe i enabled some wrong options in the kernel and they are breaking each other.

Re: Building Tiny Linux Systems with Busybox, Part 2: Building t

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 09/18/2004 - 02:00.

did you enable ROM filesystem support in the kernel? if not you can try mkcramfs instead

ROM filesystem

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 12/04/2004 - 20:40.

I had a similar problem with romfs. In my case, I had to gzip the file system without "-9".

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