Hi guys, It seems that the booting problems I experienced are bound to the stock Debian kernel I was using.. The same kernel that booted successfully with patched kernels just won't boot with the stock 2.6.8-2 kernel... this somewhat amazes me, considering that Stefano is a Debian developer and is expected to use this distribution :D By the way I still haven't hand-compiled UML myself.. more on that later.. Included you can see: - The list of modules I am using - .config for a kernel that works and another one that does not..
lsmod: af_packet 16776 2 loop 13576 0 sr_mod 14244 0 i2c_ali1535 6660 0 i2c_ali15x3 7044 0 uhci_hcd 29840 0 ide_cd 38532 0 ehci_hcd 27400 0 i2c_core 17168 2 i2c_ali1535,i2c_ali15x3 natsemi 24544 0 cdrom 37792 2 sr_mod,ide_cd usbcore 114052 3 uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd shpchp 43712 0 Dear Gilberto, > UML now boots with the flags Stefano gave me... > It' was not clear form the docs that > > 1) devices are not needed in the host but in the guest > 2) ubd0...ubdn are NOT the devices..but they are /dev/ubda, /dev/ubda1, ecc. it is up to you to choose the convention: you can create the devs either as mknod /dev/ubd0 b 0 98 or mknod /dev/ubda b 0 98 > > Home-compiled Kernels still give the cryptic message "Device configured out of UML"... if you would like I can provide to you the output of Debian's $ linux --showconfig so that you can manage a comparison between my conf and yours. > > tar jxvf linux-2.6.16.tar.bz2 > make menuconfig ARCH=um > make ARCH=um > > using standard config file.. see the attachment. Tell me if it will compile and if it will work fine. Then we can pass to the next issues/doubts. Cheers SteX -- Stefano Melchior, GPG key = D52DF829 - http://etinarcadiaego.dyndns.org -- http://www.stex.name Skype ID "stefanomelchior" [allegato "myconfig.bz2" rimosso da Gilberto Morando/Lombardia-Servizi/IT] [allegato "signature.asc" rimosso da Gilberto Morando/Lombardia-Servizi/IT] (See attached file: config-2.6.16-026test009.works.gz) (See attached file: config-2.6.8-2-686-doesntwork.gz)
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