Bug#655219: win32-loader: GNU/Hurd graphical installer doesn't boot when setup by win32-loader

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Didier Raboud, le Mon 09 Jan 2012 16:35:59 +0100, a écrit :
> Le lundi, 9 janvier 2012 16.02:15, Didier Raboud a écrit :
> > Le lundi, 9 janvier 2012 15.38:50, Samuel Thibault a écrit :
> > > Could you try appending TERM=mach-color on the gnumach command line?
> > > That'll enable the purely text installer.
> > 
> > Done that (with the gtk/gnumach.gz as before); not better.
> 
> I just retried, with the exact same grub configuration:
> 
> * non-gtk initrd.gz, non-gtk gnumach.gz: boot
> * non-gtk initrd.gz,     gtk gnumach.gz: boot
> *     gtk initrd.gz, non-gtk gnumach.gz: no boot
> *     gtk initrd.gz,     gtk gnumach.gz: no boot
> 
> So the culprit might be the initrd.gz. I didn't succeed in unpacking them: 
> what is their format ?

Doesn't file tell it?  It's simply an ext2fs filesystem.

I bet it's simply the big size of the file which poses problem.

Samuel