On Monday 11 April 2005 11:04, Simon Waters wrote: > On Friday 08 Apr 2005 6:28 pm, Blaisorblade wrote: > > On Friday 08 April 2005 17:04, Jelle Boomstra wrote: > > > On Friday 08 April 2005 16:49, Simon Waters wrote: > > > > Was running Debian testing on host, with the various Debian UML > > > > packages loaded from the other versions, and the Debian stable file > > > > system from the usermodelinux.org site. > > > > About SKAS: it's not mandatory, however since almost everybody uses SKAS > > mode, TT mode is frequently non-debugged. It's not abandoned, when > > mode-specific bugs are reported they usually get fixed soon. > > Well looks like there is a bug, but not sure how to report it other than > the kernel versions as before. > > > > Did you try a 2.6 kernel? you only mention 2.4 kernels, most > > > development is on 2.6 I guess. > > > > What is more important, is that 2.6 kernels are usually more stable *at > > all*. > > > > We aren't yet rewriting from scratch big parts of code, we are instead > > gradually and gradually fixing it more and more. There are some bigger > > changes, which are well tested anyway. > > > > Especially, try either 2.6.11-bs3, 2.6.11-bs1, or 2.6.9-bs7 (in this > > order). The last one is known to be a bit unstable in TT mode, however > > (where "a bit" means "install Gentoo to notice" or something like that). > > I tried a build of 2.6.11 (stock kernel) with the ARCH=um, Yes, that does not build on Woody, we have recently fixed that... try -bs4 from the website.
> At this point I decided trying 2.6.11 was a step backwards from where I was > and found the "Debian Stable HOWTO" with the SKA patched 2.4.25 and found > that worked. > I can investigate the errors on the 2.6.11 kernel and rebuild with the > later patches - I was unclear as to whether I should need a host kernel > patch, and whether I could run 2.6 UMLs only on 2.6 host kermels, so > finding something that worked was a higher priority than finding out why it > didn't work. Of course now it works I have more time - if only waiting for > the upgrade from Woody to Sarge to run - now I've decided Woody really is > too old for what I want to do. > Thanks, > Simon -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
