Re: Bug in COW format - 64-bit incompatible with 32-bit due to struct padding (was: Re: [uml-user] uml_moo and large files)

2005-12-15 Thread Jeff Dike
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 05:26:44PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: > The problem is that the same declaration is used in kernel sources. I.e., we > have (likely) COW files generated from 64-bit machines using a different > format from 32-bit ones. So we have two incompatible formats out there in the

Re: Bug in COW format - 64-bit incompatible with 32-bit due to struct padding (was: Re: [uml-user] uml_moo and large files)

2005-12-15 Thread Joel Palmius
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Blaisorblade wrote: uml_moo says "arithmetical error". I'm only guessing this is because the root/cow files are too large..? Or is it a 64-bit host error? ... Just for confirmation - I looked in your mails but I found a missing detail: I expect you used a 32-bit kernel to

Re: [uml-user] Debian root_fs images

2005-12-15 Thread Casey T. Deccio
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 08:06 -0700, Stefano Melchior wrote: > Yes, correct. But I did something different: I updated the deb package > that allows you create your own linux executable (from deb-source) or to have > mine from deb. > I asked a month ago to include my patch on official debian repositor

Bug in COW format - 64-bit incompatible with 32-bit due to struct padding (was: Re: [uml-user] uml_moo and large files)

2005-12-15 Thread Blaisorblade
On Sunday 16 October 2005 18:26, Joel Palmius wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /export/virtual/usermode/machine.master $ ls -lh > totalt 4,3G > -rwxr-xr-x 1 joepal users 671 16 okt 16.09 config.pl* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 joepal users 12 16 okt 16.09 master.uml -> ../lib/linux* > -rw-r--r-- 1 joepal users 4

Re: [uml-user] Debian root_fs images

2005-12-15 Thread Stefano Melchior
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 03:26:12PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: Hi, > > > > I'm trying to set up a Debian UML system, but I can't seem to get the > > > Debian root images to work. One of them just hangs during the > > > initialization (after I had created a symlink manually from /dev/ubd0 to > > > /

Re: [uml-user] Re: UML immediate segfault on RHEL4 regardless CONFIG_HOST_2G_2G

2005-12-15 Thread Blaisorblade
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 17:48, Jeff Dike wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:15:55PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: > > As a fix, I suggest switching away from printk() for such early uses. Do > > you agree? I wonder if that's enough, but hey, the rule is "no spinlock > > without kernel stack". A

Re: [uml-user] host with kernel 2.6.12

2005-12-15 Thread Blaisorblade
On Thursday 15 December 2005 13:19, Stefano Melchior wrote: > On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 08:20:41PM +0100, Jean-Michel Caricand wrote: > Hi Jean-Michel > whay don't you add the following to the /etc/apt/sources? > deb http://etinarcadiaego.dyndns.org/~ste/debian/ ./ > deb-src http://etinarcadiaego.d

Re: [uml-user] Debian root_fs images

2005-12-15 Thread Blaisorblade
On Thursday 15 December 2005 06:43, Stefano Melchior wrote: > On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 11:31:15PM +0100, Julius Schwartzenberg wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to set up a Debian UML system, but I can't seem to get the > > Debian root images to work. One of them just hangs during the > > initialization

Re: [uml-user] host with kernel 2.6.12

2005-12-15 Thread Stefano Melchior
On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 08:20:41PM +0100, Jean-Michel Caricand wrote: Hi Jean-Michel > > > Add stderr=1 to get more messages, then we'll see which is the cause. > > > Additionally, reduce the amount of memory since it's not able to use so > > > much > > > in your system (probably because of Exec