I would guess that there isn't a /dev/ttyS0 on the disk image. I don't  
know what is in the stage 3 image as far as dev inodes go, but it  
should be populated with approximately what is in the image we  
distribute.

Ali

On Feb 23, 2009, at 7:30 AM, Veydan Wu wrote:

> Hi, Ali, Thanks for you help. I have created a blank image and copy  
> Gentoo stage 3 in it. Everything seems OK, but when I used it to run  
> M5 in FS mode, I got an error below:
>
> Warning: unable to open an initial console.
> Restarting system.
>
> The simulator just quit from there. The default console I used is  
> downloaded from the website and runs fine if I use the default image  
> download from the website. How can I solve this problem. Thanks !
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 11:04:41 -0500
> From: Ali Saidi <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [m5-users] create blank image using mkblankimage.sh
> To: M5 users mailing list <[email protected]>
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes
>
> You probably do not have permision to create try.img in /. Try
> creating it in /tmp or create it as root.
>
> Ali
>
> On Feb 21, 2009, at 10:26 AM, Veydan Wu wrote:
>
> > Hi Ali, Thanks for you reply about using Gentoo stage 3 image on
> > creating my own linux image. When I use the mkblankimage.sh, it
> > fails to work.
> >
> > dd'ing the blank image (this make take a while)...
> > Unable to create the blank image try.img in ./
> >
> > I search into the script code and found that it uses this :
> >
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=$IMAGE_DIR/$IMAGE_NAME bs=512 count=$BLK_SIZE
> > $OUT_PUT
> >
> > while the /dev/zero maybe the reason of the failure. I don't know
> > whether others had encountered this, Is it necessary to inform other
> > users of M5 about that the script may fail to work. Thanks !
> >
> > Message: 2
> > Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:29:41 -0500
> > From: Ali Saidi <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: [m5-users] m5-users Digest, Vol 30, Issue 17
> > To: M5 users mailing list <[email protected]>
> > Message-ID: <[email protected]>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes
> >
> > If you create a disk image (using the blank image script available
> > from the download page) and untar the gentoo tarball onto it, that
> > should work.
> >
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