[coLinux-users] coLinux doesn't support the latest Arch Linux

[Bolong W. <wb@x.com.sb>]

This post was first published on the discussion forum, however I didn't get any reply. Therefore I decided to post it to the mail list and see if any one has a solution or workaround on this issue.



I installed Arch Linux 2014.04.01 on an
 image file formatted to ext3 and attempted to boot coLinux using that 
image. I have changed /etc/fstab and replaced the corresponding lines with the cobds.

When I run the coLinux daemon I got error messages as follows:


Failed to mount /dev: No such device

Failed to mount /dev: No such device


(Yes it appeared twice, and these two lines were printed in red.)

Since indeed I have seen a filesystem called dev mounted on /dev
 in another well functioning Arch Linux in my VMware Player virtual 
machine, I think the error messages above simply meant that for some 
reason Arch Linux failed to mount that filesystem on /dev during its boot. Possibly caused by the kernel difference because coLinux's kernel is quite out of date.

The last few lines that was printed on the coLinux console were:


Determining /, Found.

Mounting /

REISERFS warning (device cobd0): sh-2021 reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reise

rfs on cobd0

EXT3-fs (cobd0): recovery required on readonly filesystem

EXT3-fs (cobd0): write access will be enabled during recovery

EXT3-fs (cobd0): recovery complete

EXT3-fs (cobd0): mounted filesystem with writeback data mode

kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds

Modules already installed.

Closing /

EXT3-fs (cobd0): using internal journal

EXT3-fs (cobd0): mounted filesystem with writeback data mode

VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) on device 117:0.

Trying to move old root to /initrd ...

kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds

/initrd does not exist. Ignored.

Unmounting old root

Trying to free ramdisk memory ... okay

Freeing unused kernel memory: 140k freed

Failed to mount /dev: No such device

Failed to mount /dev: No such device


I don't know if there is any workaround on this and the coLinux wiki is quite out of date too I got no useful information there.