[Pkg-uml-pkgs] [rootstrap] how to proceed?

[Stefano Melchior]

On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 07:09:28PM +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote:
Dear all,
> > http://uml.harlowhill.com/index.php/DevfsUdev
> > 
> > regarding how, on Debian, you can manage udev and ubd devices.
> > I am planning when to take time to study this option.
> 
> this only deals with the guest kernel/rootfs, not what rootstrap uses
> (eg: it mixes the host and guest fs)
> 
> I already have udev on all my UML filesystems.
report of the yesterday night test: I succeeded!
What do I need to say:
- you need ubd on the host too in order to make 'mkfs', 'mount' rootstrap
  module working;
- you may provide in /etc/udev/links.conf the record suggested in
  http://uml.harlowhill.com/index.php/DevfsUdev, but it is still not
  enough;
- you succeed when you use a mounted cdrom as mirror, because 'debian'
  rootstrap module still fails [1].

At this point, I was wondering if:

- it is possible and reasonable to ask to Marco D'Itri to provide udb
  devices creation for udev on host; I checked there are no mention in the
  its(udev) bug list
- it is reasonable that rootstrap provides for their (ubds) creation;
- it is reasonable to add new mirror choises (apart from debootstrap and
  cdrom);
I planned to test other thing during the day

Cheers

SteX

[1]
I: Retrieving Release
E: Failed getting release file http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/Release
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/rootstrap/builder", line 66, in ?
    dispatch(module, modulevars)
  File "/usr/lib/rootstrap/builder", line 44, in dispatch
    raise "rootstrap: Module '%s' failed, status: %d" % (module,status)
rootstrap: Module 'debian' failed, status: 1
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

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