Re: [User-mode-linux-devel] New root_fs; problems with Toms Root/boot (libc5)

[Jeff D. <jd...@ka...>]

I got it to boot with no changes to the disk itself except for adding an 
/etc/passwd (not even /dev/ubd/*, which I forgot :-).

Your immediate problem is probably that I have the old select syscall hooked 
up wrong.  It goes into an infinite loop returning an error because the 
arguments are being picked up wrong in the kernel.  Fixing that and another 
problem gives me a clean boot.

If you are building from sources, I can give you patches which fix things.

And what's with no /etc/passwd, anyway?  Is there some other way to get a 
shell out of it?

> I'd love to see it as one of the available root environments for uml.
> He does have a short copyright message and two urls that he'd like
> included in any derivative works, but I suspect that's not too much of
> a problem; they could be included in a short README.toms.

OK, I can stick it up there once I put up a kernel that can boot it.

				Jeff