Re: [uml-user] Arch-linux 0.6 filesystem

[David C. <li...@ed...>]

On Wednesday 01 September 2004 09:14, Ali Campbell wrote:
> ii) Arch-linux, like gentoo, requires the kernel to provide devfs
> support. One problem I currently have with my UML arch setup is that
> the boot console will not seem to attach to fd:0,fd:1 (that is, stdin
> and stdout; con=pty works fine). I have already had to fix the odd
> devfs related quirk, so I was wondering if this might also have
> something to do with devfs. Can anyone who has worked on making UML
> filesystems for gentoo help with this ?

To be honest there isn't actually much work to be done in order to get 
Gentoo to work under UML.  devfs seems to work fine and is mounted 
successfully, although I let the Gentoo init scripts mount it instead of 
using the kernels auto-mounting method.

The i686 binaries should be absolutely fine, provided the host is at least 
i686.  Also, it depends if they are compiled with -march or -mcpu.  If 
they run, you should be OK.

To fix the fd:0,fd:1 problem check your inittab.  You need to have a 
virtual console/tty running on vc0/tty0.  For my Gentoo UML, the relevant 
line from inittab looks like:

c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 ttys/0 linux

Hope that helps,

David