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I will not install with the LVM option this time and stick to what I know. That's how it started 20 minutes ago. During the installation I checked for Something Else to do with my partition scheme - something I have done many times in the past, and when I tried to clear sdb to make new partitions and stuff it does not let me because it is used by LVM! I went for the automatic installation alongside Windows.

Halfway there a fatal error pops up that it cannot install the loader to sda alongside Windows. Next thing I know everything is crippled. It keeps getting better and better. Somedays a man should just say in bed. Tags: Busybox Initramfs error.

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Take another example. This is the help page of the mv command from GNU Coreutils:. If you simply want to experience BusyBox on your current Linux distribution, you can install it using your distribution's package manager like Apt or DNF or Yum. After that, if you want to run the BusyBox version of a command, you have to add busybox before it. Alternatively , you can download the Docker image of BusyBox and experience it in a running container.

Altogether, you don't need BusyBox on a regular Linux system. There is no need to install a stripped down version. The same goes when you want to keep the size of your Docker image small. I hope you have a better understanding of BusyBox. If you need any clarification or have a suggestion, please let me know in the comments. Please enter at least 3 characters 0 results found.

Start by learning how to strip a working system down to the bare essentials needed to run one or two commands, so you know what it is you actually need. To learn how to build a working Linux system entirely from source code, the place to go is the Linux From Scratch project.

They have an entire book of step-by-step instructions you can read online or download. They also have mailing lists which are better sources of answers to Linux-system building questions than the Busybox list. If you want an automated yet customizable system builder which produces a Busybox and uClibc based system, try buildroot , which is another project by the maintainer of the uClibc Erik Andersen. Download the tarball, extract it, unset CC, make. For more instructions, see the website.

Full functionality requires Linux 2. Earlier versions may still work, but are no longer regularly tested. A large fraction of the code should run on just about anything. While the current code is fairly Linux specific, it should be fairly easy to port the majority of the code to support, say, FreeBSD or Solaris, or Mac OS X, or even Windows if you are into that sort of thing.

Busybox in general will build on any architecture supported by gcc. Kernel module loading for 2. On Linux, Busybox releases are tested against uClibc 0. Both should provide full functionality with Busybox, and if you find a bug we want to hear about it. Linux-libc5 is no longer maintained and has no known advantages over uClibc , dietlibc is known to have numerous unfixed bugs, and klibc is missing too many features to build Busybox.

If you require a small C library for Linux, the Busybox developers recommend uClibc. Some Busybox applets have been built and run under a combination of newlib and libgloss see this thread. This is still experimental, but may be supported in a future release. You have not paid us a single cent and yet you still have the product of many years of our work.

We are not your slaves! We work on Busybox because we find it useful and interesting. If you go off flaming us, we will ignore you. If you find that you need help with Busybox, you can ask for help on the Busybox mailing list at busybox busybox.

Please do not send private email to Rob, Erik, Manuel, or the other Busybox contributors asking for private help unless you are planning on paying for consulting services. When we answer questions on the Busybox mailing list, it helps everyone since people with similar problems in the future will be able to get help by searching the mailing list archives.

Private help is reserved as a paid service. If you need to use private communication, or if you are serious about getting timely assistance with Busybox, you should seriously consider paying for consulting services. Yes we are. The easy way to sponsor a new feature is to post an offer on the mailing list to see who's interested. You can also email the project's maintainer and ask them to recommend someone.

As long as you fully comply with the terms of the GPL Busybox license you can ship Busybox as part of the software on your device. If you use Busybox binary in your device's firmware, and if you or the company you work for is providing this device to others selling, giving for free, etc , you have to provide users with means to build the same Busybox binary from source.

For example, you may do it by placing the following, or similar, text somewhere on the company's web site: This device's firmware includes the following open-source components Busybox: We are using patched version of Busybox 1. If make command fails with the message arm-linux-uclibc-gcc: command not found you need to install suitable cross-compiler for ARM processor first. ARM cross-compilers are widely available both from commercial vendors and from open-source projects.

Adjust the text to suit your actual situation. You have to make the page easily accessible. In other words, users should not be forced to guess the URL. The most sensible choice is to put this text on the page where users normally download updated binary firmware images. You may even provide the toolchain. But these "extra nice" things are not required by license. License also does not require you to provide any support for users which use firmware or part of it built from source.

What license does require, though, is that Busybox source which you provide actually can be built and that it will match Busybox binary which is found in your binary firmware.

If you simply need help with using or configuring Busybox, please submit a detailed description of your problem to the Busybox mailing list at busybox busybox.

Please do not send email to individual developers asking for private help unless you are planning on paying for consulting services. When we answer questions on the Busybox mailing list, it helps everyone, while private answers help only you Bug reports and new feature patches sometimes get lost when posted to the mailing list, because the developers of Busybox are busy people and have only so much they can keep in their brains at a time.

You can post a polite reminder after days without offending anybody. If that doesn't result in a solution, please use the Busybox Bug and Patch Tracking System to submit a detailed explanation and we'll get to it as soon as we can.

Note that bugs entered into the bug system without being mentioned on the mailing list first may languish there for months before anyone even notices them. We generally go through the bug system when preparing for new development releases, to see what fell through the cracks while we were off writing new features. Saves retransits, but the latency sucks. Busybox mailing list and individual developers sometimes receive emails which ask for help with Busybox installation on their smartphones, tablets and the like.

Please note that at the time of this writing , Busybox project does not provide prebuilt binary packages for any architecture or device - it provides the source code. If you are downloading and installing a Busybox binary onto your device, it means that someone else made that Busybox binary. There are a number of people who do this for example, Aboriginal Linux.

If you are experiencing problems with installing such a binary build, you may be better off if you contact a person or a project which provides it, not the Busybox development mailing list or an individual developer. If you still want to seek advice about your problem on the Busybox development mailing list, please provide as much information about your situation as possible: On what device you are trying to install the package?

The URL to the place where you got the package from. The version of the package. The sequence of operations you are performing. What do you observe when you do that. In case it is not obvious from the previous description: What, in your opinion, is not happening correctly?

Email like this: "I tried downloading applets for all version of Busybox the problem remains consistent" will most likely be ignored, or you will be redirected to this FAQ.

In this particular email example, none of the above bits of information are present. If you see a bug in an old version, it is recommended that you first check whether the problem still exists in the most recent release. The purpose of the Busybox mailing list is to develop and improve Busybox, and we're happy to respond to our users' needs. But if you're coming to the list for free tech support we're going to ask you to upgrade to a current version before we try to diagnose your problem.

If you're building Busybox 0. To get that fix, all you have to do is upgrade to a newer version. If you don't want to take the risk of replacing all applets by newer versions, you can employ this trick:.

Download most recent release, configure it with "make allnoconfig", then use "make menuconfig" to switch on just the applet you want to test and maybe a couple of tuning options. Then build Busybox. Then, on target system, delete the old applet symlink that points to your old Busybox, and replace it with the new Busybox binary, renamed to applet's name. Now you can test the new applet and post a more useful email to the mailing list, either "I see such and such bug even in latest release" or "I see such and such bug in release X.

Z, but it seems to be fixed in last release". Deleting the old symlink still leaves the old functionality in your existing old Busybox binary, you just wouldn't be using it anymore.

If things will get even worse with new version, you can always restore the symlink. The volunteers are happy to fix any bugs you point out in the current versions because doing so helps everybody and makes the project better. We want to make the current version work for you.

But diagnosing, debugging, and backporting fixes to old versions isn't something we do for free, because it doesn't help anybody but you.

The cost of volunteer tech support is using a reasonably current version of the project. If you don't want to upgrade, you have the complete source code and thus the ability to fix it yourself, or hire a consultant to do it for you. If you got your version from a vendor who still supports the older version, they can help you. But there are limits as to what the volunteers will feel obliged to do for you. As a rule of thumb, volunteers will generally answer polite questions about a given version for about three years after its release before it's so old we don't remember the answer off the top of our head.

It's also hard for us to fix a problem of yours if we can't reproduce it because we don't have any systems running an environment that old. A consultant will happily set up a special environment just to reproduce your problem, and you can always ask on the list if any of the developers have consulting rates. Init is the first program that runs, so it might be that no programs are working on your new system because of a problem with your cross-compiler, kernel, console settings, shared libraries, root filesystem To rule all that out, first build a statically linked version of the following "hello world" program with your cross compiler toolchain:.