So apparently the Fedora image that was on the website didn't work with the 2.6.16 kernel I downloaded. Once I tried the image with 2.6.17 it worked fine. I think the Fedora image used thread local storage, and the 2.6.16 kernel didn't support it well.
On 6/22/06, Rick Spillane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I followed the instructions on the website to build the kernel, and it > appears to finish making (no build errors) but when I try running it > with this command: > > ./linux ubda=../FedoraCore5-x86-root_fs mem=128M > > It doesn't boot, and gives me this error: > > VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. > cannot set up thread-local storage: set_thread_area failed when > setting up thread-local storage > > Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! > > EIP: 0073:[<40014a8f>] CPU: 0 Not tainted ESP: 007b:bf429d18 EFLAGS: 00000246 > Not tainted > EAX: ffffffda EBX: 0000007f ECX: bf429aec EDX: 00000003 > ESI: 40016de8 EDI: 40016da8 EBP: bf429d44 DS: 007b ES: 007b > 10507bac: [<08069c6c>] show_regs+0xc4/0xc9 > 10507bd8: [<08058fc8>] panic_exit+0x23/0x3d > 10507bec: [<080790b9>] notifier_call_chain+0x1a/0x3a > 10507c0c: [<0806db3b>] panic+0x4f/0xcc > 10507c28: [<0806fbb8>] do_exit+0x6a/0x318 > 10507c48: [<0806ff34>] sys_exit_group+0x0/0x13 > 10507c60: [<0806ff44>] sys_exit_group+0x10/0x13 > 10507c6c: [<080596de>] handle_syscall+0x86/0xa0 > 10507cb8: [<08066f14>] userspace+0x1fb/0x23f > 10507d00: [<08059382>] new_thread_handler+0x9a/0xa9 > 10507d1c: [<0023b420>] 0x23b420 > > remove_umid_dir - actually_do_remove failed with err = -39 > > -bash-3.00$ > > I find this interesting, because the precompiled binary availabe at: > > http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/new/linux-2.6.16.bz2 > > Works perfectly fine, this tells me that somehow I'm not compiling > correctly, even though make succeeds. I was very careful to make sure > ARCH=um, and also set the environment variable ARCH=um just to be > extra sure. I even did make mrproper && make mrproper ARCH=um, then > redid the build, and it still doesn't seem to work. Any ideas? > > -- > > Rick > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
