Trouble installing Hurd
Hello
Have been reading this news groups for some weeks but I am still having
problems. I run Debian Linux and have checked the version of mke2fs. I
have tried several tarballs, and several partitions, and always get a
similar error.
Got a home made machine with two Seagate 4.2 Gb disks. I have a 500 Mb
partition as /dev/hda1, and I follow the instructions, (know them off
by heart now)
I boot from a floppy and up comes Hurd. When it gets to the disk I get:
hda4: bad access
block 28 count 2 blockend 30 nrsects
end request I/O error dev 03:04 sector 28
This is the last primary partition and it holds the rest of the
partitions
The script native_install runs OK; then I reboot the machine, single
user again. This time I get:
file system not unmounted cleanly Please fsck
mount read-only must use fsysopt --writable
If I fsck the partition, then reboot, it 'works' OK. The fsysopt
--writable is not an allowed instruction.
What I get is a very unstable system; df does not work and editing the
fstab to mount other partitions is hairy. I have tried MAKEDEV to build
for the other partitions
What am I doing wrong. The disks were partitioned with Debian fdisk.
Must I have just four primary partitions per disk?
Chris
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