request help installing hurd

[Paul Mineiro <pmineiro@horton.bigbrother.com>]

hi.  i hope this is the appropriate forum for this sort of desperate
flailing.

i followed the instructions at http://www.pick.ucam.org/~mcv21/hurd.html
to get hurd running on my debian box.  i ran cross-install, got through
the boot process with GRUB 0.4, start booting the hurd, and get stopped
by

panic: cannot load user-bootstrap image: error code 6000

some relevant information:

the hurd was cross-installed onto /dev/hda2 . i grabbed all the debs from
dists/sid on ftp.debian.org on 11/11/99 and cross-install, native-install,
and dpkg-hurd executables from www.debian.org/ports/hurd/extra-files also
on 11/11/99.
 
here's the partition table:

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 784 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot   Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *        1      653  5245222   83  Linux native
/dev/hda2          654      752   795217+  83  Linux native
/dev/hda3          753      768   128520   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda4          769      784   128520   82  Linux swap

i used the grub floppy from the command line with parameters

root=(hd0,1)
boot=/boot/gnumach.gz root=hd0s2 -s      # see below
module=/boot/serverboot.gz 
boot

some confusion on my part on how to specify the root partition, so i tried
a couple of combinations (hd0s1, hd1s1, hd1s2, etc.) with no success.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

-- p