On Friday 23 September 2005 13:09, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > On 23/09/05, Chris Bainbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 22/09/05, Chris Bainbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Btw, have you tested if it works with a normal root_fs first (maybe > > > > even toms rootfs)?
> > > Yup, normal root fs works. > > I've now tried the gentoo 2005.0 initrd (not initramfs), it works (at > > least, it can mount the root), so it looks as though UML support for > > initramfs is currently broken. It is possible... don't know why, though. > Should add, for some reason, uml is unable to open a console with the > 2005.0 initrd. It can open a console fine with an ubuntu hd image. > > Initialized stdio console driver > ubda: unknown partition table > ubdb: unknown partition table > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. > Warning: unable to open an initial console. I've seen this warning without any problems a tons of times (not exactly always, though). > EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended Btw, are your console options correct? You verified this with other distros, so they should. > And then it appears to hang. Tried ssh / uml_mconsole (with sysrq) to verify this? A fully booted UML without open consoles looks really halted. > Any ideas? Maybe it expects some device > to be on the initrd, even though it should be using udev? 2005.0 using DevFS still? Not impossible. -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's "Doh!". Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID "PaoloGiarrusso", ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ___________________________________ Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB http://mail.yahoo.it ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
