[coLinux-users] Re: [coLinux-devel] snapshot 20040910 (0.6.2-pre1)

[Jaroslaw K. <ja...@zd...>]

There's a problem with the module installation script in initrd.

If i pass "ro root=/dev/cobd0" parameters it fails to isntall the modules. I
have to use "root=/dev/cobd0 ro" to be successful.

Jarek

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Aloni" <da...@co...>
To: "Cooperative Linux Development" <col...@li...>
Cc: "Cooperative Linux Users" <col...@li...>
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 4:39 PM
Subject: [coLinux-devel] snapshot 20040910 (0.6.2-pre1)


> Hello,
>
> I've released a snapshot to bring us a step closer to 0.6.2-final.
>
>     http://www.colinux.org/snapshots/coLinux-20040910.exe
>
> The problem with 0.6.2 is that people are expected to move from 2.4.x
> based coLinux system to 2.6.x based system on upgrade from 0.6.1 and
> prir. Many of the newbie users would wonder why their Gentoo stops
> working on this move (technically a script breakage over the /dev/cobdX-
> to-/dev/cobd/X notation change caused by devfs).
>
> Actually I think we should come with some sort of standard for a coLinux
> root file system, e.g a /etc/colinux file that could hint a fix-me-up
> initrd what's going on instead of auto-guessing.
>
> Apropos initrd, this snapshot contains a beta version of an initrd
> image that installs the kernel modules for the supplied vmlinux unto
> the root filesystem (thanks George). You can test it simply by
> adding the element: <initrd path="initrd.gz" />.
>
> Anyway, the list of changes from the last snapshot which was quite a
> while ago (20040710) includes:
>
>   * If the MAC address is unspecified, a random MAC is choosed
>     using the familiar TAP prefix (00:FF:XX:XX:XX:XX).
>   * Bug fix: Reception and delivery of network packets bigger than
>     2kb.
>   * Bug fix: Consoles and/or other daemons fail to connect to
>     colinux-daemon on startup (this is Windows only).
>   * Bug fix: Stop reboots where different gcc compiler versions are
>     used to compile linux.sys & vmlinux, with an error/warning
>     (George Boutwell).
>   * Enhanced coLinux keyboard handling support (sends raw scan codes
>     from Windows to linux) (Nuno Lucas).
>   * Bug fix: bad initialization caused unexpected SIGFPE for programs
>     compiled with -mpentium4 (me)
>
> You might also want to take a look at the monotone ChangeLog (under
> the snapshot directory for the monotone-declined users).
>
> -- 
> Dan Aloni
> da...@co...
>
>
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