Re: debian installer, uml, kernel 2.6
newsnews@swissonline.ch wrote:
i tried to install debian sarge rc2 into an uml system. the host is
running a kernel 2.6.8-10 with applied skas patch from
http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade/patches/skas3-2.6/host-skas3-2.6.7-v7.patch
(should be ok for 2.6.8 too, debian provied only patches till 2.6.7).
the uml kernel is from
http://packages.debianbase.de/sarge/i386/uml-exp/user-mode-linux_2.6.8-1um-1.tha9.deb.
for the installer i used initrd 2.6 from a debian rc2 cd set.
the install process stop when its time to install the
kernel-image-2.6.8-5. the output of /var/log/message tell that setting
up kernel-image-2.6.8-5 has failed: /usr/sbin/mkinitrd: device
/dev/ubd/disc4/disc (wich is a logical volume on host) is not a block
device. i found a closed bug report (#257373: Support for UML ubd
devices), but a grep on /target/usr/sbin/mkinitrd return the line "echo
ubd". Can anybody tell me how to install debian into an uml system with
debian installer? Would it help to use fake_ide, fakehd as uml boot
parameters or anything else?
combinations of fake_ide and fakehd wont either work. there is only one
exit in mkinitrd (function getroot) with the message "device ... is not
a block device". my shell script experience doesnt allow me to find out
why /dev/ubd/disc4/disc is not a block device. but isn't ubd ("user
block device") a kind of a block device???
and is it possible to feed linux (user mode linux) with the "expert26"
paramter? if so how can i do that?
--
apri
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