I'm new here so I don't know if this is the right forum/topic to post in, sorry if I'm wrong.

Trying to boot linux on the nspire cx, I've booted it from initrd fine before, and when I try to boot it from a flash drive it panics:

Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found.

A microsecond before that:

request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000

And then there's the backtrace after that. My kernel is the expanded one from ti-planet, rootfs is the x-config or something from ti-planet, and the commandline does include 'init=/sbin/init'

1) I used your instructions
2) no, just sda because it's all one filesystem (following your (and tangrs') instructions)
3) ext4

If I use sda1 then it panics, but this time I can't see why because the backtrace takes up more than one screenful.

If I mount /dev/sda and run <mountpoint>/sbin/init, init returns and doesn't display anything. Trying to mount /dev/sda1 fails: no such file or directory.

Commandline= root=/dev/sda rootdelay=10 init=/bin/sh. Kernel panic: not syncing: No init found.

Work meaning work as the init program or meaning able to run when I boot into a initrd and mount the flashdrive? It doesn't work as init=/bin/sh but it runs if I boot into initrd and run it.

How would I extract a .tns file?