Still problems with embedded Linux

I'm still having problems with getting my embedded Linux system operational.

If I use the Montavista root filesystem, init asks me for a runlevel and then just
sits there. I've searched the mailing lists for this, and I saw two reports, but
no replies.

So I decided to strip everything: I'm booting into a FS that uses devfs, has libc
and ncurses, bash and busybox, using busybox as the init. I compiled busybox
0.49 myself. Here's where it gets very interesting: booting without a inittab
file works, as busybox has a default. So I tried using a minimal 2 line inittab,
and it wouldn't work. But if I used a one line inittab that would start up bash,
it works. Once I'm on the shell, I can't read any text files but for that one line
inittab. If I have a larger inittab and boot straight into bash, I can't cat it either.

This sounds too much like libc problems. Can anybody help me?

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[]'s Bruno Renato Barreyra
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