[uml-user] background starting

[Josie I. <jimlay@u.washington.edu>]

I am trying to run a UML host from a start up script and I've wrote an
init script that would do this except that when I try to start uml linux
with out a terminal it hangs at

Initializing stdio console driver

in my log file.

Is there a switch I can pass it to make it not do this?

Or if someone has an init script that can start a uml and gracefully shut
it down when the host shuts down, that would be usefull too. The only way
I can thinking of shuting it down nicely is to have a special ssh key that
the shutdown script can login and halt the uml system. (if there's a
better way that' would be cool, mconsole ... halt is causing cool things
to my paritions. ;)

Thanks

Josie Imlay