Dan, On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Dan Bassett <dbass...@oreilly.com> wrote: > I'm having issues when using cow files with CentOS6 system images. It > is specific to CentOS6. When I tried with a debian image built with > debootstrap, the system booted just fine. I am experiencing this issue > both with a custom built UML kernel as well as the kernel I obtained > from the debian repository (2.6.32-1um-4+34squeeze1)
Is the issue related to CentOS 6 or udev? IOW does the same udev version work on e.g. Debian? > The issue I am experiencing is that during the boot process, udev hangs > forever and the boot process does not complete. It only occurs when I > use a cow file by specifying just the cow file on the command line like > "ubd0=cow_fs" rather than "ubd0=cow_fs,root_fs". When I specify both > the cow file and the backing file, the problem doesn't happen. I am > able to specify ubd0 either way with a debian image and the system boots > as expected. I have tried editing the appropriate rc script in the > CentOS6 image to take udev out of the boot process, and the system > boots, but has problems related to udev not running. Can you find out _where_ udev hangs? Is it a endless loop? A blocking system call? -- Thanks, //richard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
