On Friday 08 Apr 2005 6:28 pm, Blaisorblade wrote:
> On Friday 08 April 2005 17:04, Jelle Boomstra wrote:
> > On Friday 08 April 2005 16:49, Simon Waters wrote:
> > >
> > > Was running Debian testing on host, with the various Debian UML
> > > packages loaded from the other versions, and the Debian stable file
> > > system from the usermodelinux.org site.
>
> About SKAS: it's not mandatory, however since almost everybody uses SKAS
> mode, TT mode is frequently non-debugged. It's not abandoned, when
> mode-specific bugs are reported they usually get fixed soon.
Well looks like there is a bug, but not sure how to report it other than the
kernel versions as before.
> > Did you try a 2.6 kernel? you only mention 2.4 kernels, most development
> > is on 2.6 I guess.
>
> What is more important, is that 2.6 kernels are usually more stable *at
> all*.
>
> We aren't yet rewriting from scratch big parts of code, we are instead
> gradually and gradually fixing it more and more. There are some bigger
> changes, which are well tested anyway.
>
> Especially, try either 2.6.11-bs3, 2.6.11-bs1, or 2.6.9-bs7 (in this
> order). The last one is known to be a bit unstable in TT mode, however
> (where "a bit" means "install Gentoo to notice" or something like that).
I tried a build of 2.6.11 (stock kernel) with the ARCH=um, and also one from
someone on the IRC channel, these kernels started some tasks on the 2.4.27
based host, but I got some errors and nothing that resembled a working UML.
At this point I decided trying 2.6.11 was a step backwards from where I was
and found the "Debian Stable HOWTO" with the SKA patched 2.4.25 and found
that worked.
I can investigate the errors on the 2.6.11 kernel and rebuild with the later
patches - I was unclear as to whether I should need a host kernel patch, and
whether I could run 2.6 UMLs only on 2.6 host kermels, so finding something
that worked was a higher priority than finding out why it didn't work. Of
course now it works I have more time - if only waiting for the upgrade from
Woody to Sarge to run - now I've decided Woody really is too old for what I
want to do.
Thanks,
Simon
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