On Tuesday 07 August 2007, Peter Chant wrote: > On Tuesday 07 August 2007, Blaisorblade wrote: > > > > I just realized the real problem - that "disk is full" message is given on > > a tmpfs mount (with udev, /dev stays normally on tmpfs); the size limit of > > a tmpfs mount is by default the half of the available RAM. > > > > Uml by default picks 32M of RAM; try passing mem=64M (or even more). Some > > time ago, I couldn't boot a _real_ workstation with 64M of RAM, I went to > > 96M (for testing purposes, I was passing mem= to a real workstation).
> Cheers, making real progress now, thanks to you and also Dave Houlden's web > page http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dave.houlden/root_fs_slack12.0.readme. > (not sure if he reads / posts here). > A bit of comparison between Dave's notes and my go at it allowed me to get a > working image. Interestingly Dave's root image (downloadable) does not need > a mem= passing to it whereas mine does - and Dave does not install udev > whereas I do. Indeed, if you remember the message I pointed out saying "device full" it was during an mknod operation by udev - so the relation between those two differences is clear. Bye > So thanks to you both. > > Pete > -- > Peter Chant > http://www.petezilla.co.uk ___________________________________ L'email della prossima generazione? Puoi averla con la nuova Yahoo! Mail: http://it.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
