Re: [uml-devel] How stable is hostfs (and UML in general)?

[Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>]

On Tuesday 11 January 2005 22:34, Michael Richardson wrote:
> >>>>> "Rob" == Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> writes:
>
>     Rob> Chapter 5 of current variants of LFS uses the host system to
>     Rob> create a toolchain you can chroot into and build the final
>     Rob> system with.  Then in chapter 6, you build the final system in
>
>   I think the use of chroot is a cop-out.
>
>     Rob> This requires root access (as does creating device nodes,
>     Rob> mounting /proc or loopback devices...  A rather large number of
>
>   I use "fakeroot" to do all of that for embedded work that I do...
What's this?


>   dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k count=64 of=MYSWAP
Please add a "mkswap MYSWAP" here (or even inside the guest, 
mkswap /dev/ubd1).
>   ./linux ubd1=./MYSWAP
>
>     Rob> The tee output of four consecutive runs is attached.  All I did
>     Rob> each time was ctrl-c out of the hang, cursor up, change the

>     >> You could hit ^C from a hang?

>     Rob> /dev/console attaches to fd0 and fd1.  These are not ttys/ptys
>     Rob> but file descriptors, hence they controlling tty sends the kill

>   Well, usually, once the system is properly initialized, ^C does
> nothing. If you get a kernel panic/hang, I usually have to use kill from
> another window.
Yes, that's because it turns the console to raw mode (don't ask me why).
-- 
Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade
Linux registered user n. 292729
http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade


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