Re: sysfs question

[Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano-NmTC/0ZBporQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

xiaoming.zhang wrote:
> On Thursday 11 September 2008 10:05:43 pm Mark Ryden wrote:
>> In fact, after looking more closely, I see that before that message
>> appears: Error: unmouting old /sys
>> ERROR unmounting old /sys: Invalid argument.
>> forcing unmount of /sys
>> switchroot...
>>
> 
> My experience is you'd better to find a sysfs patch, since the sysfs 
> filesystem is required by ramdisk and some system utilities, e.g., system 
> network configuration scripts.
> 
> Patch for mm-tree can be found here:
> 	http://lxc.sourceforge.net/patches/2.6.26/
> 
> This is what I used:
> http://lxc.sourceforge.net/patches/2.6.26/2.6.26-rc8-mm1-lxc1/broken-out/sysfs/
> 
> I merged these 11 patches on Linux-2.6.26.1 though I don't understand these 
> patches, luckily enough it worked for me.

As mentioned Benjamin, it is hard to boot a distro without sysfs. I 
think it is a good idea to use the lxc patchset.

You can use the latest version:

http://lxc.sourceforge.net/patches/2.6.27/2.6.27-rc6-lxc1/

If you want to play with the container, you have the userspace tools at:

http://lxc.sourceforge.net/download/lxc/

Don't forget to check the README in the directory ;)

   -- Daniel