Re: [uml-devel] memory option crashes the uml bootstrap phase

2006-03-21 Thread Jeff Dike
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 07:54:08PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: > However, test increasing /proc/sys/vm/max_map_count This only bites you when you have large UML processes - I don't think it can cause a crash on boot. Jeff -

Re: [uml-devel] memory option crashes the uml bootstrap phase

2006-03-21 Thread Blaisorblade
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 15:50, Stefano Melchior wrote: > On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 03:26:25PM +0100, Stefano Melchior wrote: > Dear all, > [...] > I also noticed that, from manual page, if you use: > mem=memory > This controls how much "physical" memory the kernel > allocates for the system. The si

Re: [uml-devel] memory option crashes the uml bootstrap phase

2006-03-21 Thread Jeff Dike
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 03:26:25PM +0100, Stefano Melchior wrote: > - while I added the mem=256M option at the command line, I obtained the > following error: > Any suggestion? Do you have CONFIG_MODE_TT enabled? I think disabling it is the fix for this. Jeff

Re: [uml-devel] memory option crashes the uml bootstrap phase

2006-03-21 Thread Stefano Melchior
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 03:26:25PM +0100, Stefano Melchior wrote: Dear all, [...] I also noticed that, from manual page, if you use: mem=memory This controls how much "physical" memory the kernel allocates for the system. The size is specified as a number followed by one of ’k’, ’K’, ’m’, ’M’,

[uml-devel] memory option crashes the uml bootstrap phase

2006-03-21 Thread Stefano Melchior
Dear all, I may be wrong but I encountered a strange problem: - I downloaded a root_fs from http://uml.nagafix.co.uk/ (debian) - I user my own user-mode-linux pkg for debian (upcoming on debian unstable); - I launched the following command: ste$ linux ubd0=Debian-3.1-x86-root_fs con0=fd:0 con=p