# HG changeset patch
# User Paul Boddie <paul@boddie.org.uk>
# Date 1443360715 -7200
# Node ID f212013eb137f970d50f9697a0a2e17eff85275b
# Parent  a15ebea7b3b614fc813a80ed783aa30eda9538dd
Added notes about Linux kernel installation and root password initialisation.

diff -r a15ebea7b3b6 -r f212013eb137 README.txt
--- a/README.txt	Sun Sep 27 13:43:41 2015 +0200
+++ b/README.txt	Sun Sep 27 15:31:55 2015 +0200
@@ -298,6 +298,14 @@
 Constructing UML Instances
 --------------------------
 
+Before making an image, make sure that you have set a root password in the
+existing filesystem. Otherwise, you will not be able to log into the UML
+instance. The following commands will achieve this:
+
+user-do --root
+passwd
+exit
+
 Since UML needs to see its filesystems as images, not directories within an
 existing filesystem, the uml-make-image script needs to create these image
 files. For example, to create a root filesystem 4GB in size, along with a swap
@@ -334,7 +342,10 @@
 Building User Mode Linux
 ------------------------
 
-To make a User Mode Linux executable, run the uml-linux-build script.
+To make a User Mode Linux executable, run the uml-linux-build script, with the
+--root option being necessary to install modules into a root filesystem:
+
+uml-linux-build --root
 
 Enabling Networking for UML Instances
 -------------------------------------