Re: [uml-user] Reg: Booting UML 2.6.15.6 Kernel with hostfs as root filesystem

[Pranjal K. D. <pra...@gm...>]

Hi,
      Thsnks for the reply. Pls refer inline.
Regards,
Pranjal


On 5/22/06, Blaisorblade <bla...@ya...> wrote:
>
> On Monday 22 May 2006 11:07, Pranjal Kumar Dutta wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >                 I have my host 2.6.15.6 kernel with skas patch and my
> guest
> > kernel also in 2.6.15.6 that runs in skas mode. I have no problem in
> > booting the UML kernel with root fileystems provided in uml website. An=
d
> > then in my UML kernel I can mount hostfs into my /mnt/host to access th=
e
> > data in my disk. But here I face a probelm when  try to runa program in
> my
> > hostfs (e.gzebra routing suite). because my librariries(
> > e.g libc.so.5) and other paths are now not mounted at / , rather at
> > /mnt/host.
>
> Try prepending in the shell
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=3D/mnt/host/lib:/mnt/host/usr/lib
> (add other paths as needed); be careful since this may cause crashes in
> programs from UML root fs, since they can get libraries they don't expect
> (and I've seen such crashes).
> [Pranjal] : I have tried doing that once, but got some other errors. I
> will try setting the path once again and will let you know the result.




> So, I tried to boot the UML kernel directly from my hostfs
> > itself and failed. I am not able to understand clearly the step given a=
t
> > uml website on booting directly from hostfs.
> There are people which do it successfully, but try the other approach
> first.
> About what to do, I don't know... if you have a little doubt ask it,
> answering may be easier.


[Pranjal]OK, I will privde the steps that I tried to boot hostfileystem
directly. Then it would be easier to point the problems.


> If anybody can provide me
> > detailed info or can give pointers to useful info that would be of grea=
t
> > help.
>
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