On Tuesday 01 March 2005 13:17, Maarten wrote: > Hi list, > > I'm building my first usermode linux system, using a howto from the Gentoo > site. (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/uml.xml) Also look at the main UML site and at http://uml.harlowhill.com/ > When I booted linux, it hung(*) because it couldn't find any modules, so I > went back and built and installed modules target, mounted the rootfs as > loopdevice and copied all of the fresh /lib/modules/x.y.z to /mnt/loop/lib/ > modules. Nothing is mentioned about modules in the howto so I just had to > second-guess it... > (*) I assumed it hung because on the host system I saw many many shells > spawned by the usermode system > > So now the modules are there, but the real problem, the endless spawning of > shells, still persists. In fact I guess that the miss of modules was another, indipendent problem (I boot most of my kernels after forgetting to install modules... I make sure what I really need is compiled in).
> This is what I see on the host system: This is the usual symptom of a 2.6.9 / .10 host with a UML old enough to not have the fixes. Vanilla 2.6.9 and 2.6.10 haven't them (some doubts about 2.6.10). Try using the UML tree downloaded from my homepage (the -bs7 patchset against 2.6.9) and it should solve the thousands of shells problem (it's normal they are started, the problem is that don't die with SIGKILL, on those host kernel versions). To improve the speed, you can also try applying the SKAS patch to the host, as said usually. -- 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_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&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
