[uml-user] Booting ubuntu 6.10 from a physical disk

2007-01-05 Thread n schembr
I'm trying to consolidate hardware and uml looks like a better solution then qemu. Is this true? (Flame shell up) But, the bigger issue is related to real images of systems not booting on user mode linux. I have install a base system from ubuntu 6.10, ubuntu-6.10-server-i386.iso. The image i

Re: [uml-user] Booting ubuntu 6.10 from a physical disk

2007-01-05 Thread Jonas Meyer
I have 2 systems running Ubuntu edgy eft with UML. It is important that you use the right version of guest kernel. I also downloaded mine from bb's site. I am using "kernel32-2.6.18-bb1". It was the most recent version I could find as of a month or so ago that would work with my config. Most k

Re: Rif: Re: Rif: Re: [uml-user] Booting user-mode-linux 2.6.16, the next stage...

2006-05-23 Thread Stefano Melchior
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:41:57AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciao, > Stefano, I tested the image you pointed me to but it fails to detect my IDE > drive, connected to an ALI controller (My PC is an HP Compaq nx9010 > "business laptop"...) can you be more verbose with an error log? If you liv

Rif: Re: Rif: Re: [uml-user] Booting user-mode-linux 2.6.16, the next stage...

2006-05-23 Thread Gilberto . Morando
Stefano, I tested the image you pointed me to but it fails to detect my IDE drive, connected to an ALI controller (My PC is an HP Compaq nx9010 "business laptop"...) --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security?

Re: Rif: Re: [uml-user] Booting user-mode-linux 2.6.16, the next stage...

2006-05-22 Thread Stefano Melchior
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 12:30:41PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciao Gilberto, > > >> 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.

Re: Rif: Re: [uml-user] Booting user-mode-linux 2.6.16, the next stage...

2006-05-22 Thread Gilberto . Morando
>> 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 >Can you clarify if talking about the _host_ or _guest_ kernels? >Which

Re: [uml-user] Booting user-mode-linux 2.6.16

2006-05-21 Thread Blaisorblade
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 17:17, Brock, Anthony - NET wrote: > > > 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 compar

Re: Rif: Re: [uml-user] Booting user-mode-linux 2.6.16, the next stage...

2006-05-19 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 03:40:13PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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..

Re: [uml-user] Booting user-mode-linux 2.6.16

2006-05-19 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 08:17:08AM -0700, Brock, Anthony - NET wrote: > > > 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 mana

Rif: Re: [uml-user] Booting user-mode-linux 2.6.16, the next stage...

2006-05-18 Thread Gilberto . Morando
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 i

RE: [uml-user] Booting user-mode-linux 2.6.16

2006-05-17 Thread Brock, Anthony - NET
> > 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. Has anyone started a repository of "known"

Re: [uml-user] Booting user-mode-linux 2.6.16

2006-05-17 Thread Stefano Melchior
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 03:07:36PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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/u

[uml-user] Booting user-mode-linux 2.6.16

2006-05-17 Thread Gilberto . Morando
Hi all. 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. Home-compiled Kernels still give the cryptic message "Device configured

[uml-user] Booting UML from ostfs as root

2006-04-30 Thread Pranjal Kumar Dutta
Hi All, I am not able to boot my UML built upon 2.6.15.6 from hostfs as root filesystem. I have followed the steps given in UML main website under "host file access". Can anybody provide me  the detailed steps with examples on how to boot UML from hostfs sd root filesystem?   Than

Re: [uml-user] Booting problems in 2.6.16-rc4

2006-02-20 Thread Jan Kara
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 06:34:49PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > > Actually I was not probably clear enough. In this case starting UML > > fails even before it writes out anything (and as I checked the same > > problem is with 2.6.15 kernel) - it actually fails during the > > dynamic-linking phase (

Re: [uml-user] Booting problems in 2.6.16-rc4

2006-02-20 Thread Jeff Dike
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 06:34:49PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > Actually I was not probably clear enough. In this case starting UML > fails even before it writes out anything (and as I checked the same > problem is with 2.6.15 kernel) - it actually fails during the > dynamic-linking phase (outputs of

Re: [uml-user] Booting problems in 2.6.16-rc4

2006-02-20 Thread Jan Kara
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 12:22:35PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > > I have the following problem with UML in 2.6.16-rc4: > > if I configure the kernel to use tracing thread support, then the kernel > > stops just after mounting the root and then writing: > > > > line_ioctl: tty0: ioctl KDSIGACCEPT c

Re: [uml-user] Booting problems in 2.6.16-rc4

2006-02-20 Thread Jeff Dike
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 12:22:35PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > I have the following problem with UML in 2.6.16-rc4: > if I configure the kernel to use tracing thread support, then the kernel > stops just after mounting the root and then writing: > > line_ioctl: tty0: ioctl KDSIGACCEPT called > > I

[uml-user] Booting problems in 2.6.16-rc4

2006-02-20 Thread Jan Kara
Hello, I have the following problem with UML in 2.6.16-rc4: if I configure the kernel to use tracing thread support, then the kernel stops just after mounting the root and then writing: line_ioctl: tty0: ioctl KDSIGACCEPT called If I set init to be e.g. /bin/bash and not /sbin/init, then I g

Fwd: [uml-user] booting

2005-08-12 Thread Marco Garcês
>On my Gentoo /dev is a ramfs/tmpfs filesystem, so make sure you give the guest >enough memory... I gave 2gb of swap to my guest!!! I'm now going in other direction. Instead of building from stage 3 and then, tar everything, decided to mount directly the root_fs on a loop, and go stage3 from their

Re: [uml-user] booting

2005-08-12 Thread Blaisorblade
On Wednesday 10 August 2005 19:32, Nelson Castillo wrote: > > [ oops ] > > > > * The "tar" command failed with error: > > > > rd/c6d27p4: Cannot mknod: No space left on device > > tar: rd/c6d27p5: Cannot mknod: No space left on device > > tar: rd/c6d27p6: Cannot mknod: No space left on device > >

Re: [uml-user] booting

2005-08-11 Thread Jeff Dike
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 12:45:20PM +, Marco Garc?s wrote: > No, the root_fs has enough space i know 4 sure! :( any more ideas? A sparse root_fs with no space left on the host filesystem? Jeff --- SF.Net

Re: Fwd: Fwd: [uml-user] booting

2005-08-11 Thread Ruaidhri Power
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 05:52:39PM +, Marco Garces wrote: > How exactly do i use static device nodes instead of udev? sorry.. but > im a newbie on this I'd suggest you do three things: First, try another guest image to make sure that works - particularly if it might fulfill your needs. T

Fwd: Fwd: [uml-user] booting

2005-08-11 Thread Marco Garcês
-- Forwarded message -- From: Ruaidhri Power <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Aug 11, 2005 3:20 PM Subject: Re: Fwd: [uml-user] booting To: user-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 03:02:44PM +, Marco Garcs wrote: > Nope.. left the root_fs mounte

Re: Fwd: [uml-user] booting

2005-08-11 Thread Ruaidhri Power
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 03:02:44PM +, Marco Garcs wrote: > Nope.. left the root_fs mounted on loop, and did a watch "df -i", and > this is what i see: > > /uml/root_fs 0 0 0- /uml/loop Are you sure you're mounting the filesystem correctly? This is how I do it o

Fwd: [uml-user] booting

2005-08-11 Thread Marco Garcês
-- Forwarded message -- From: Ruaidhri Power <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Aug 11, 2005 12:59 PM Subject: Re: [uml-user] booting To: user-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 12:45:20PM +, Marco Garcs wrote: > No, the root_fs has enough space...

Re: [uml-user] booting

2005-08-11 Thread Ruaidhri Power
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 12:45:20PM +, Marco Garcs wrote: > No, the root_fs has enough space i know 4 sure! :( any more > ideas? Could the filesystem have run out of inodes? Use `df -i' to check. -- Ruaidhri --- SF.Net email is Spon

Re: [uml-user] booting

2005-08-11 Thread Marco Garcês
On 8/10/05, Nelson Castillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [ oops ] > > > > * The "tar" command failed with error: > > > > rd/c6d27p4: Cannot mknod: No space left on device > > tar: rd/c6d27p5: Cannot mknod: No space left on device > > tar: rd/c6d27p6: Cannot mknod: No space left on device > > tar

Re: [uml-user] booting

2005-08-10 Thread Nelson Castillo
> [ oops ] > > * The "tar" command failed with error: > > rd/c6d27p4: Cannot mknod: No space left on device > tar: rd/c6d27p5: Cannot mknod: No space left on device > tar: rd/c6d27p6: Cannot mknod: No space left on device > tar: rd/c6d27p7: Cannot mknod: No space left on device > tar: rd/c6d28p1

[uml-user] booting

2005-08-10 Thread Marco Garcês
Hi UML users! Here is my problem: im using UML, inside my gentoo distro. Made de root_fs from a stage3. Have everything compiled and correctly configured (i think :) but when u try to run "linux", it starts booting but than gives me a erro: * Mounting proc at /proc ...

Re: [uml-user] Booting UML on a disk partition of the host system?

2005-04-14 Thread Yannick Patois
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Milan P. Stanic wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 10:46:35AM +0200, Yannick Patois wrote: >>I would like to boot UML on a real disk partition instead of a loopback >>mount on a file. This seems interesting to me because it doenst have the >>2Go lim

Re: [uml-user] Booting UML on a disk partition of the host system?

2005-04-14 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 10:46:35AM +0200, Yannick Patois wrote: > I would like to boot UML on a real disk partition instead of a loopback > mount on a file. This seems interesting to me because it doenst have the > 2Go limit, and it looks simplier to configure. > > Is there a way to do it ? An ent

[uml-user] Booting UML on a disk partition of the host system?

2005-04-14 Thread Yannick Patois
Hi, I'm very new to UML. I seeked the doc but couldnt found an answer to my question: I would like to boot UML on a real disk partition instead of a loopback mount on a file. This seems interesting to me because it doenst have the 2Go limit, and it looks simplier to configure. Is there a way to