[uml-user] problems getting started with User mode linux

2005-08-10 Thread M Taha Masood
Hello folks I have installed Fedora Core 3 ( Fc3 ) on my host machine and was trying to get started on user mode linux . What i understood from the various information on the web is that starting from kernel version 2.6.9 , the Makefiles for building the kernel image , will accept the switch "AR

[uml-user] booting

2005-08-10 Thread Marco Garcês
Hi UML users! Here is my problem: im using UML, inside my gentoo distro. Made de root_fs from a stage3. Have everything compiled and correctly configured (i think :) but when u try to run "linux", it starts booting but than gives me a erro: * Mounting proc at /proc ...

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2005-08-10 Thread Marco Garcês
Hi Masood. I think you are not doing the correct steps to configure the kernel. Perhaps you dont have experience doing that, so here is what its suppose to be done: go to your kernel tree in question (normal /usr/src/linux) as root: make menuconfig ARCH=um (now configure your kernel n

RE: [uml-user] problems getting started with User mode linux

2005-08-10 Thread Ernie Fontes
I recently had similar problems setting up UML. You need to download a recent vanilla (unmodified) kernel from kernel.org. (eg. 2.6.12) Then patch it with the corresponding patch from http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade The instructions on that site should guide you through patching and b

Re: [uml-user] booting

2005-08-10 Thread Nelson Castillo
> [ oops ] > > * The "tar" command failed with error: > > rd/c6d27p4: Cannot mknod: No space left on device > tar: rd/c6d27p5: Cannot mknod: No space left on device > tar: rd/c6d27p6: Cannot mknod: No space left on device > tar: rd/c6d27p7: Cannot mknod: No space left on device > tar: rd/c6d28p1

RE: [uml-user] problems getting started with User mode linux

2005-08-10 Thread M Taha Masood
thanks , but do you mean i should recompile and patch the kernel of my host or the guest or both? regards Taha --- Ernie Fontes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently had similar problems setting up UML. > > You need to download a recent vanilla (unmodified) > kernel from kernel.org. > (eg. 2.6

RE: [uml-user] problems getting started with User mode linux

2005-08-10 Thread Brock, Anthony - NET
Start with the guest. The host isn't nearly as critical. Tony -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of M Taha Masood Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 2:12 PM To: Ernie Fontes; user-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [uml-user] pro