Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754509AbYKSSc1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:32:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753493AbYKSScS (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:32:18 -0500 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:37113 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753441AbYKSScS (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:32:18 -0500 Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:32:16 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Linux Kernel Mailing List cc: jdike@addtoit.com Subject: uml: using hostfs as rootfs is not working Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LNX 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 685 Lines: 22 Hi, as per Documentation/uml/*txt, I issued the following to get a direct hostfs: ./linux ubd0=/tftpboot/linux (/tftpboot/linux/sbin/init exists), but the UM kernel only gives: Failed to open '/home/tftpboot/linux', errno = 21 ubda: Can't open "/home/tftpboot/linux": errno = 21 List of all partitions: 6200 4 ubda driver: uml-blkdev So either UML lost some functionality sometime, or the documentation is incorrect. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/