[Pkg-uml-devel] Re: reviving pbuilder-uml

[Junichi Uekawa]

Hi,

> > > Also, pbuilder-uml is already part of the pbuilder suite, hopefully
> > > Junichi-san will just start rebuilding it when our work will allow him
> > > to :)
> > 
> > Last time I looked, pbuilder-uml will need rootstrap functioning.
> > rootstrap needs some hacking before it's usable with current
> > user-mode-linux (without devfs, and other things).
> 
> Good news, rootstrap-0.3.22-1 is in incoming today.

congratulations.

> I read you need help with pbuilder-uml, here are some quick notes:
> 
> - ubd disks device nodes are
> 	/dev/ubd[abcdefgh]
>   with partitions giong from 1 to 15. 
>   They are created with `MAKEDEV ubd`. ubd0 maps to ubda, ubd1 to ubdb
>   and so on.
>   (Any reason you're launching uml with ubd1 instead of ubd0?)

device 0=host filesystem (which has pbuilder and other stuff on)

device 1=loopback (which is used as the target sid chroot)

> - I wouldn't suggest using udev inside a Sid UML, it takes a while when
>   "Waiting for /dev to be fully populated..." (it works well in
>   Sarge, very fast boot), anyway it uses the same /dev/ubd[abcdefgh] names
>   for devices
> 
> - kill the "devs=mount" kernel option
> 
> - add /usr/lib/uml to the $PATH environment variable as UML will hang if
>   it doesn't find uml_net. Kernels > 2.6.17-rc4 won't need it anymore,
>   but it won't hurt anyway.
> 
> I hope this is all, I could find some spare time to spend on
> pbuilder-uml in the next days (hopefully).

That'd be nice.

If you have questions, I'll hopefully be able to answer them.

At the moment, UML doesn't seem to work on my system (amd64).


regards,
	junichi
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