On Monday 29 August 2005 00:45, Gunter Ohrner wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 28. August 2005 15:35 schrieben Sie:
> > > After retrying with an UML kernel build using UML's standard .config,
> >
> > You are using something very different from the standard .config.
>
> Mh... That's pretty strange... I just made a mrproper in my 2.6.12.5 bs9
> source tree and, just to be sure, unpacked a fresh 2.6.12.5 kernel.
>
> In both tress I just made
>
>   make menuconfig ARCH=um
>
> thereafter.
>
> Both show the same options selected in menuconfig.
You must make instead a:

make defconfig ARCH=um

before. Probably the build is picking the host config's in /boot as base, 
which is normally appropriate, except you're doing a cross-build like this. I 
tried to fix that but 

> > The standard config boots and runs, you came up with something very
> > different.

> AFAIK the configuration used by the current, running, kernel influences
> the selection made by "make menuconfig", maybe this also influcences the
> configuration which was presented to me when configuring UML?

> Is there a 
> way to disable this behavior if current and target architectures do not
> match?
>
> [*] stderr console (NEW)
> [ ] Virtual serial line (NEW)
> [ ] null channel support (NEW)
> [ ] port channel support (NEW)
> [ ] pty channel support (NEW)
> [ ] tty channel support (NEW)
> [ ] xterm channel support (NEW)
> (fd:0,fd:1) Default main console channel initialization (NEW)
> (...)
> [ ] Virtual block device (NEW)
> (...)
> [ ] Virtual network device (NEW)
>
> The UML resulting from this configuration is obviously unable to boot. I'm
> really curious how this happened...
>
> > Use rc6 or rc7 - UML/x86_64 runs out of the box there.
>
> Linux 2.6.13rc7?
>
> Great, I will try this soon.
> Using a manually fixed config 2.6.12.5bs9 now runs at least on i386. I
> will try this binary inside a 32 bit chroot on x86_64 tomorrow, maybe it
> works. If it does not, I'll try the latest prepatch kernel from
> kernel.org.
>
> Greetings,
>
>   Gunter

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