On Friday 30 December 2005 17:19, Xinhuan Zheng wrote: > On 12/30/05, Blaisorblade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yep - udev requires sysfs. > > But I didn't suggest using udev - however it would work (i.e. create ubd > > nodes) however for a recent enough kernel.
> I did creating them in uml-test:/dev beforehand & changed /dev/ubd/[01] to > /dev/ubd[01], passing root=/dev/ubd[01] option to kernel. Pass nothing - the default is root=98:0, which is like root=/dev/ubda. Note that it's not related to the existance of /dev/ubda inside the filesystem (which hasn't even been mounted when that is parsed!) > Cannot open root device "ubd0" or unknown-block(0,0)', no matter if I pass > devfs mount or nomount option. > The only workaround is I have to pass 'root=/dev/ubd/0 devfs=mount'. So > confusing. > I saw Debian did mouting devfs in log messages. Debian is still using > devfs. Don't say "still" about a 3 to 5 years old distribution (Debian 3.0, Woody release)... or be aware it's so old. Go uml.nagafix.co.uk for more recent FS. -- 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: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&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
