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From: Jonathan R. <fre...@ul...> - 2003-02-05 17:25:16
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At Tue, 4 Feb 2003 16:19:00 -0800,
Roger Binns wrote:
> This is a bug in UML and skas. It doesn't occur in TT mode. Jeff
> has fixed it in the most recent UML release (a day or two ago).
I hadn't noticed this. Tested it out with the newest patch, and works
fine with only one minor error observed that produces no side effects:
Miniroot starting
Miniroot exiting - exit status 0
Couldn't umount /dev on none: Bad address
Couldn't umount /dev on none: Bad address
System halted.
Creating new initial ramdisk
Checking for the skas3 patch in the host...found
Checking for /proc/mm...found
Miniroot starting
174+0 records in
174+0 records out
mke2fs 1.27 (8-Mar-2002)
Miniroot exiting - exit status 0
Couldn't umount /dev on none: Bad address
Couldn't umount /dev on none: Bad address
System halted
There's just a problem with umounting /dev. The question is, should
/dev be umounted anyways?
Another enhancement request: In umlbuilder help add more explanation
for 'list'.
(*) You can supply 'list' to this argument to get a list of possible values
ex: umlbuilder --distro list
umlbuilder --distro d --modules list
The reason why I suggest this is because it's intuitive to want to do
something like
umlbuilder --modules list
which fails unless --distro d is included, and ofcourse user's don't
always looks closely at the documentation.
> There are actually some nice goodies in miniroot. As well as making
> initial ramdisks and installing modules, it has a rescue mode that
> gets you a command line shell. rescue mode doesn't premount your
> filesystems yet.
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> It also has a filesystem resizer/format changer. This works by
> making a new sparse file, running mkfs, and then cpio the data
> across.
Nice stuff. Eventually - future project - I will add umlbuilder to
gbootroot using the CLI interface, though the GUI could be used, too.
I'm still deciding whether or not to implement a plug-in system, or
just to continue building things directly into gbootroot. Umlbuilder
definitely fits into gbootroot's IDE design.
Thanks,
Jonathan
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