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. > > > > Ali _______________________________________________ > m5-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users _______________________________________________ m5-users mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users
