Re: Hurd under Bochs

[Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>]

On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 06:51:24PM +0100, Neil Levine wrote:
> 
> 12 hours...what are you running it on? A 286? :-)

After a few days I got an installed GNU system in my Bochs :)

the reason for the delay is that it's crashed me a big bunch of times,
and for some weird reason e2fsck refused to work so i had to reboot into
GNU/Linux to fsck.

Image can be found at:

http://khazad.dyndns.org/gnu/ 

The following problems have got into the way:

(Bochs has been given 64MB for RAM and 128MB for swap)

Booting:
ppa support in mach crashes bochs by reading 0x3c0 (i'm looking into this)

General:
can't handle more than 64 translators in /dev (crashing on 65th). note that
most of /dev/{p,t}ty{p,q}* devices aren't there (btw, they aren't critical
are they?)

Single-user:
random crashes setting up pakages, specialy ext2fsprogs and inetutils
random crashes setting up /dev/console
native-install: `fsysopts / | perl -ne 'm!^/hurd/(.*?)\.static.*?([^\s]+)\s*?$!; print $2;'` returns device:hdXsY which MAKEDEV doesn't understand

Multi-user (with swap):
unpacking gnumach or hurd crashes (likely any big package would crash it)

cheers,

-- 
Robert Millan

"5 years from now everyone will be running
free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5"

              Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992


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