Re: [uml-user] newbe questions

[Jeff D. <jd...@ad...>]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 08:46:57AM -0800, David Lang wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Blaisorblade wrote:
> >hostfs as root is not well supported.
> 
> good to know, I'll avoid useing it for now. is it on the roadmap to be 
> supported?

No, it can't work as root, for a variety of reasons.  However, humfs,
which I'm banging on now, and which seems to be working well, will
work as root.

> fsck 1.37 (21-Mar-2005)
> fsck.ext2: No such device or address while trying to open /dev/shm/root
> Possibly non-existent or swap device?

I have no idea what /dev/shm/root is supposed to be, but this error
normally means that, while the device file is present in /dev, the
driver for it is not present in the UML kernel.

> eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> Bind socket to interface: No such device
> exiting.
> Failed to bring up eth0.
> done.

> at this point I have xterms up for the active tty's on the uml box, but 
> ifconfig -a doesn't show any network interfaces.

It should.

I may have missed this, but you do have UML ethernet device support
configured?

				Jeff