On Sunday 02 October 2005 22:52, Nix wrote: > I'm using a COWed block device as my root filesystem. After boot, I see > this:
> Size mismatch (140789027962880 vs 209715200) of COW header vs backing file > Failed to open '/mirror/uml/esperi-root-cow.image', errno = 22 > VFS: Cannot open root device "98:0" or unknown-block(98,0) > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on > unknown-block(98,0) > With 2.6.12.5-bs11, it mounts fine. Have you checked now? I was wondering if you increased the backing file size... but the mismatch is excessive, so ignore this. What the bloody hell... I'll look into this ASAP, but I don't remember any changes there. > This looks more like some sort of byte-ordering problem. I hope... > Any ideas? What dumb thing have I done now? (Is it just that I need to let > UML recreate the COW file itself? > Are COW files not portable between UMLs > or something?) No, they should be portable... -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's "Doh!". Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID "PaoloGiarrusso", ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ___________________________________ Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB http://mail.yahoo.it ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
