hi folks,
did try my installation again, with the new crosshurd. here is how it
went:
- box standard virtualbox
- booted netinst cd and installed a minimal testing
- hda1: ext3/linux
- hda2: swap
- hda3: empty for hurd
- booted into linux, upgraded to unstable and installed crosshurd and
some other usefull stuff (vim etc). i did not upgrade to the new grub.
- mkfs.ext2 -o hurd /dev/hda3
- mount /dev/hda3 target
- crosshurd there, all defaults except target and "gnu" type
- added grub entries like in this mail:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2009/09/msg00007.html
but my device is hd0s3 of course
- reboot into hurd single-user
- ./native-install
- the questions about grub-pc are slightly worrying, but i just clicked
through them
- apparently it tries to create a /etc/fstab for me, which fails with a
"Couldn't determine root partition, sorry".
- if i try to run nano it gives me a "Error opening terminal: unknown"
- /etc/fstab contains only comments
- reboot in multi-user hurd
- hurd comes up ok, but can't login because i don't know the password,
so rebooted into linux and set something in /etc/shadow
- now i can log in, woohoo! that funny console cmd that i had problems with
the last time did
work as well, and nano works fine afterwards
- something wrong with my fstab however, if i enter a swap partition there and
do a "swapon -a" it fails, looks like i have no /dev/hd0s2. in fact i only
had a /dev/hd0... after the restart i could run MAKEDEV myself without
problems, so that fixes this
i think the original makedev problem was that it could not figure out what my
root fs was, so that variable was not set...
so summing up: quite smooth except for the makedev thing and the fact
that there is no root password set, i'll look into the makedev problem
next time!
cu robert
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Robert Lemmen http://www.semistable.com
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