[umlbuilder-devel] Re: List of Bugs

[Jonathan R. <fre...@ul...>]

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.
> 
> 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