Re: [edlug] Debian UML getty problem

[Dick Middleton <dick@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

Tim Hawes wrote:
> > I used rootstrap to build my UML root disk (Debian Woody).  It all seems 
> > to work except at boot up I get a series of these messages:
> >
> > execvp of 'x-terminal-emulator' failed - errno = 2
> > xterm_open : run_helper failed, errno = 2
> >
> > So far as I can tell they come from getty when spawned by init.
> >
> > 3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3
>
>
> Each getty causes the UML to create another tty, and in this case the UML
> tries to attach them to xterms.

I guess this is what a normal host does.  It's probably not what I want 
to do with my uml.

What I want is to create a tty in the term or xterm that uml is started. 
 That seems to be tty0 always but I'm not sure why.

> You can attach the ttys elsewhere with command line parameters, as described
> here:
>
> http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/input.html

This is more sophistcated and I don't fully understand what it's telling 
me.

At the moment I'm just trying to get the thing to boot.

Dick




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