[uml-user] Creating a filesystem

[Alan M. <al...@zo...>]

Hello,

I wrote regarding this before: basically, when I attempt to create my =
own filesystem, no matter if I am installing using Mandrake or Red Hat, =
when it starts booting, it gets to almost the end of the booting =
process, then hangs.

Just to see if perhaps it was the hardware, I downloded a pre-built =
RH7.2 "pristine server" image, as well as Mdk8.2 (from the UML site), =
and they both booted perfectly.

Jeff Dike had suggested that the script that was the culprit and causing =
the hanging was the one the came after the last apparently successful =
script, and I should put a '-x' in the "shebang" line to see what was =
happening.  Well, according to the "rankings" in the 'rc3.d' directory, =
it appeared to be hanging on the 'rc.local' script, as that was the only =
one left that seemed to be needing to be executed.

Well, I ended up putting the '-x' in the "shebang" line of the "rc" and =
"rc.sysinit" scripts, and these are the last few lines just before it =
hangs (this is a RH7.3 UML filesystem):

--- CUT HERE ---
+ action 'Starting sshd: ' /etc/rc3.d/S55sshd start
+ STRING=3DStarting sshd:
+ echo -n 'Starting sshd:  '
Starting sshd:  + shift
+ initlog -q -c '/etc/rc3.d/S55sshd start'
+ success 'Starting sshd: '
+ '[' -z '' ']'
+ initlog -q -n /etc/rc.d/rc -s 'Starting sshd: ' -e 1
+ '[' serial '!=3D' verbose -a -z '' ']'
+ echo_success
+ '[' serial =3D color ']'
+ echo -n '[  '
[  + '[' serial =3D color ']'
+ echo -n OK
OK+ '[' serial =3D color ']'
+ echo -n '  ]'
  ]+ echo -ne '\r'
+ return 0
+ return 0
+ rc=3D0
+ echo

+ return 0
--- CUT HERE ---

I guess I need to figure out which script those commands belong to, and =
go from there?

I am really not understanding why one of the pre-built filesystems will =
work fine, but one I create myself will not.  I have tried creating =
manually, as well as with 'umlbuilder', and same result both times.

I would really like to get this working, or at the very least, is there =
somewhere I could download a pre-build RH7.3 filesystem?

TIA for any help and advice you are able to offer this poor soul :-)

Alan Murrell <al...@zo...>