Re: Linuxulator question, boot loader oddity

[Tim Darby]

I'm willing to go with that explanation, lacking a better one. ;-)
However, in vi I would have had to accidentally type the sequence g~~,
which doesn't seem likely.

Tim



On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Justin C. Sherrill
 wrote:
> On Sun, November 7, 2010 8:45 am, Tim Darby wrote:
>> That's when I noticed that loader.conf looked like
>> this:
>>
>> VFS.ROOT.MOUNTFROM="HAMMER:SERNO/s0a4j1ta141435.S1D"
>> linux_load=yes
>>
>> I tried changing the mountfrom line to:
>> vfs.root.mountfrom="hammer:serno/S0A4J1TA141435.s1d"
>
> I don't know what editor you use, but is it possible you somehow hit the
> right key sequence to invert case on that line while entering the
> linuxulator stuff?  It's a guess, but it fits the symptoms.
>
>

Re: Linuxulator question, boot loader oddity

[Justin C. Sherrill]

On Sun, November 7, 2010 8:45 am, Tim Darby wrote:
> That's when I noticed that loader.conf looked like
> this:
>
> VFS.ROOT.MOUNTFROM="HAMMER:SERNO/s0a4j1ta141435.S1D"
> linux_load=yes
>
> I tried changing the mountfrom line to:
> vfs.root.mountfrom="hammer:serno/S0A4J1TA141435.s1d"

I don't know what editor you use, but is it possible you somehow hit the
right key sequence to invert case on that line while entering the
linuxulator stuff?  It's a guess, but it fits the symptoms.

Linuxulator question, boot loader oddity

[Tim Darby]

I'm running 2.8 now and it looks great so far.  I setup linuxulator
for the first time yesterday as follows:

- added linux_load=yes to /boot/loader.conf
- added linux_enable=yes to /etc/rc.conf
- pkg_radd suse_base
- mount -t linprocfs none /usr/pkg/emul/linux/proc

Did I miss anything?  I've only tested it with java and that works fine.

Here's the weird part.  After I added the line linux_load=yes to
/boot/loader.conf, the machine failed to come up and landed me at the
mountroot prompt. That's when I noticed that loader.conf looked like
this:

VFS.ROOT.MOUNTFROM="HAMMER:SERNO/s0a4j1ta141435.S1D"
linux_load=yes

I tried changing the mountfrom line to:
vfs.root.mountfrom="hammer:serno/S0A4J1TA141435.s1d"

This fixed the root mount.  So, I'm wondering how my system was able
to boot before I made this change and why did simply adding a line to
loader.conf cause it to break?

Tim

Re: Linuxulator question

[Alex Hornung]

On 25/09/10 15:52, Tim Darby wrote:
> What's the status of the Linuxulator?  I saw that Alex put a lot of
> work into it, so is it basically done and just needs testers?
Linuxulator works quite nicely on x86; at least Java works and as far as
I know Flash, too. On x86_64 there is no linuxulator at all. There was
someone who started porting it to that platform, but as far as I know
there's nothing to show for it.

Personally I'd like to see it ported to x86_64 but I don't have the
time. If anyone wants to volunteer, he can count on my support.

Cheers,
Alex Hornung

Linuxulator question

[Tim Darby]

What's the status of the Linuxulator?  I saw that Alex put a lot of work
into it, so is it basically done and just needs testers?

Thanks,
Tim