On Monday 28 February 2005 05:40, Jim Carter wrote: > On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Halldór Gylfason wrote: > > I was just setting up the 2.6.9 version of UML, but when booting up the > > terminals did not come up, and INIT complained with this remark: > > > > INIT: Id "0" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > > .. > > > > Earlier posts on this mailing list indicated that this could be a problem > > regarding a multithreaded version of glibc. On the contrary, in my case > > theproblem was that I had not selected the DEV_FS pseudo file system. > > After selecting that everything was OK. The DEV_FS support is however > > marked as being "OBSOLETE" in the config files, which discourages people > > from selecting it , with the result in my case tha I could not log into > > the system. > > It sounds like the getty on /dev/tty0 can't start, and a likely reason is > that there is no device inode (/dev/tty0 itself). Devfs would have created > it. Just a correction to what you say: devfs would create /dev/ttys/0 (or something similar), and the devfsd daemon, if running, would create the normal name. But almost all "historical" fs images use DevFS without devfsd, and so have /etc/inittab and other files configured to use the DevFS names.
> But in kernel 2.6.x official wisdom is to use udev: > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-FAQ > I've had very good results with udev (plus some clinkers). Alternatively, > mount your root image on the host and create by hand: > mknod /mnt/dev/tty0 c 4 0 > and any other inodes that you may not have. The MAKEDEV script can also help. > Or, of course, stick with > devfs. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=click _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
