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Installation of Busybox on Pandaboard

I am trying to install busy box on panda board which has ICS android kernel

steps are below that I used

  1. Downloaded binary file which is supported to the panda board

  2. Pushing it into system/busybox/ folder

  3. Install the busybox command line tools on the target by executing the following commands on booted filesystem: 

                     pc> ./adb shell
                 target$ cd /system/busybox
                 target$ ./busybox --install .
                 target$ ./sh  #here i am getting error like ./sh: precmd: not found

  4. Save the original sh executable by renaming it, and then create a soft-link to busybox sh:

     target$ cd /system/bin
 target$ mv sh sh.android
 target$ ln -s /system/busybox/sh sh

  5. After that Export

    export PATH=$PATH:/system/busybox:/sbin:/vendor/bin:/system/sbin:/system/bin:/system/xbin

I want to make Busybox shell as default shell so I can run script on Panda board, but I am getting error in 3rd step that I have mentioned there.

Solution

  • The precmd error seems to be due to the prompt. Try resetting the prompt, by doing:

    $ unset PS1 PROMPT_COMMAND