[PLUG] UML command line for console on a remote box
Derek Loree
drl at drloree.com
Sun Apr 6 16:14:02 UTC 2003
On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 13:19, Russell Senior wrote:
> >>>>> "Stafford" == Stafford A Rau <srau at rauhaus.org> writes:
>
> Stafford> I had the same problem, and figured out that my uml root_fs
> Stafford> inittab was trying to spawn gettys on ttys that didn't
> Stafford> exist. You can confirm that by loopback mounting your
> Stafford> root_fs on your host machine, something like:
>
> Stafford> mount -o loop /usr/local/uml/root_fs /mnt
>
> Yeah, that's what I did to "fix" it. In my case, I just commented out
> all the ttys and made sshd work instead.
You can also override this with command line parameters when you start
the uml, I use something like this to start the file "root_fs":
linux eth0=tuntap,,,192.168.0.50 con=port:9000 con1=tty:/dev/tty11 con0=tty:/dev/tty12
which directs the boot message stuff to tty12 (<ctrl>+<alt>+<F12>) on
the host, first console to tty11 (<ctrl>+<alt>+<F11>), and the rest
redirected to port 9000 on the host. To login, just "telnet hostname
9000", even if the tuntap network isn't working.
HTH,
Derek Loree
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