Hi,
Just a quick note to say I installed a Debian Sarge (Testing) release and I
managed to generate a root_fs fine, so it looks like Sarge stable rootstrap
has issues one way or another but subsequent releases are fine.
Thanks for all the help,
Rob
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 16:45:03 +, Stefano Mel
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 04:27:18PM +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> As far as I remember the old sarge rootstrap relies on DEVFS which is not
> that easy to enable in recent kernels :)
If this is the issue, then you need a newer rootstrap - devfs is now
officially gone from the kernel.
Hi,
You can find my install writeup at
http://www.monkeyhelper.com/2006/06/installing_user_mode_linux_on.html
I'm running Debian Sarge stable with SKAS patch (see the writeup) and then as
my host UML kernel I'm using a blaisorblade precompiled kernel32-2.6.16.18-bs2
The strange thing is I'm su
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 02:16:18PM +0100, robl wrote:
> [42949375.37] VFS: Cannot open root device "98:0" or unknown-block(98,0)
> [42949375.37] Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> [42949375.37] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> unknown-block(98,0)
On Thu, August 3, 2006 3:36 pm, Jeff Dike said:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 02:16:18PM +0100, robl wrote:
>> [42949375.37] VFS: Cannot open root device "98:0" or
>> unknown-block(98,0)
>> [42949375.37] Please append a correct "root=" boot option
>> [42949375.37] Kernel panic - not syncing
I'm using 2.6 kernels as the host and guest kernels ...
I've just been looking round and it appears rootstrap doesn't work with 2.6
kernels - is that anybody else's understanding ?
If so, I guess I've answered my own question !
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 16:19:22 +, Stefano Melchior wrote
> On Thu,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ linux --showconfig | grep BLK_DEV_UBD
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UBD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UBD_SYNC=y
Appears to be enabled ...
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 09:36:59 -0400, Jeff Dike wrote
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 02:16:18PM +0100, robl wrote:
> > [42949375.37] VFS: Cannot open root device "98:0
