In fact, after looking more closely, I see that before that message appears: Error: unmouting old /sys ERROR unmounting old /sys: Invalid argument. forcing unmount of /sys switchroot... Any ideas? Rgs, Mark On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Mark Ryden <markryde@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to follow the > Linux Containers - Network Namespace configuration instructions from > http://lxc.sourceforge.net/network/configuration.php > > > I had built a kernel with CONFIG_SYS=n and CONFIG_NET_NS=y > and CONFIG_VETH=y , etc, according to the instructions. > > > Now, the CONFIG_SYSFS help text says: > > sysfs is currently used by the block subsystem to mount the root > partition. If sysfs is disabled you must specify the boot device on > the kernel boot command line via its major and minor numbers. For > example, "root=03:01" for /dev/hda1. > > > So I added root=08,02 to my kernel boot parameter line and booted. > > > it starts booting, but then gets: > switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory. > Booting has failed. > > 8 is the majoror number and 2 is the minor number of /dev/sda2, where I have > my root partition. > > Googling for this found the following, which not helped much: > http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2007-11/msg05032.html > > Any ideas? > Regards, > Mark > _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers