Do you have console=ttys0 in the boot_osflags configuration variable?
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 4:30 AM, Veydan Wu <[email protected]> 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
