Re: [uml-user] a question on file systems ubd= parameter

[Scott E. <sup...@gm...>]

On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 16:09:28 -0800, Scott Granados <gra...@co...> wrote:
>  
>     Hi, again I hope this is not to basic. 
>   
> I have a uml built, with out devfs enabled per the default. 
>   
> I'm interested in making other fie systems so according to the steps I built
> an empty file 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=newfilesys seek=256 count=1 bs=1M 
> which created the proper file 
> then in the next step I did a 
> ./linux ubd1=newfilesys and started things which booted fine <thanks for the
> inittab help:)> 
> then per the docs I tried to mkfs on /dev/ubd/1 which did not work. 
>   
> This looks like a devfs pointer though.  Is this correct? 

Does your fstab show /dev/ubd0 or /dev/ubd/0 ?
Check that /dev/ubd1 or /dev/ubd/1 exists as well. (and 2 .. 3 .. 4
and so on for how many disk slices you want).

Thank you,


Scott Edwards
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