On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 11:43:44AM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> I checked the archives for this, and couldn't find it, which seems
> odd to me, as it's happened to me every time I've managed to get a
> root hostfs mount working, across two versions of UML and various
> other things.
> 
> When I get a prompt and try to log in, I get:
> 
>     Unable to change tty /dev/tty1: Illegal seek

This seems to work fine if I run UML as root.  Note that all the
dev files are owned by the user running UML.

Is there any way around this problem using hostfs?  Would devfs
help?

Thanks.

-Robin

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