I apologize if I inadvertently flooded the list. Apparently my mail client went stupid and kept trying to send my message but for some reason it was being sent but it wasn't ... I don't know for sure. I've switched back to the gmail interface for now till I can resolve my client issue.
Below is my inline reply. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chris Brennan <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 1:42 AM Subject: Re: Funky udev issue (I think) To: [email protected] On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 22:32:55 +0100 Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote: > I know nothing of vBox, nor indeed of any other vm, but since nobody > else reading the list has any suggestions, let's try and tease out > some more information. Is vBox the same as VirtualBox ? Yes, vBox is VirtualBox. > > I've assumed you made partitions on a real disk. If the disk in > your vm is virtual, then disregard these questions and the > suggestion. I've created a VirtualBox virtual-disk to use. > You are running the HLFS LiveCD in vBox ? I must admit, LFS's website is a bit strange to follow for the uninitiated. I have been unable to find a HLFS LiveCD, I assumed the lfslivecd-x86_64-6.3-r2145.iso image was sufficient to get started and following the HLFS handbook would give me the desired end-result. > Did the partitions appear when you created them ? If so, did you > do anything to them (e.g. mkfs, mount, ...) ? The first time I created them, yes, I was able to format them and then mounted them, I had even started the download process, then I killed'd the wrong process and my HLFS environment went down the tubes. > What is the host system on which vBox is running ? Does _it_ know > that the new partitions are there ? If your machine isn't natively > running linux, I will lose all interest ;-) The HostOS is Windows 7 and that shouldn't matter with a VirtuaBox virtual disk. I have no problems if I boot a Gentoo LiveCD and use their version of Parted, the problem is on the LFS-r2145 LiveCD and or udev. I have been unable to determin which is truely at fault. > I can recall some fun and games in the past when I repartitioned a > system disk - the kernel got the new partition table, but in a vm I > assume that both the kernel in the vm, and the host kernel, would > need to get this information. How such changes are communicated to > vBox is probably best asked on a vBox list. I wonder if something > in your vBox "installation" process configures it to use the disk as > it was at the time it was first run, and then for subsequent runs > just reuses that information. > > If this is a regular DOS partition table, you might be able to use > mknod to create device nodes if your vm lets you do that. So, for > /dev/sdX sda starts at 8,0 and sda1 is 8,1 then add 16 for each new > disk, so 8,16 and 8,17 for sdb and sdb1, etc. The point of this exorcise is to create a system the hardest possible way for me to learn from, so of course I wouldn't take the easy way out and use a DOS-style partition. I just wanted to find out of this was a known issue, if I was being stupid or if this is a genuine bug in this build of this LiveCD. > Funnily enough, on lkml today there is a proposal to taint kernels > running virtualbox (similar to kernels with staging modules loaded) > because it *causes* kernel problems. So, perhaps this is a > virtualbox problem. It very likely could be, but I hadn't run into this issue w/ my Arch, Gentoo, Debian, Slackware or FreeBSD VM's (all running on the same HostOS. So that begs to differ that it's a wide-spread problem or if it's localized to how the LiveCD environment is built. -- > Chris Brennan > -- > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? > http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549/ > GPG: D5B20C0C (6741 8EE4 6C7D 11FB 8DA8 9E4A EECD 9A84 D5B2 0C0C) ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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