Re: request help installing hurd
From: Paul Mineiro <pmineiro@horton.bigbrother.com>
Subject: request help installing hurd
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 11:52:30 -0800 (PST)
> 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
>
>
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I ran into the same problem this week when I started playing with
Hurd, and since the people here were so kind as to help me, I must
return the favour.
The version of GRUB you have is probably old, and can't boot
the compressed files. Just gunzip gnumach.gz and serverboot.gz and
everything should work. Well, it did for me, anyways.
Good Luck!
Marshal
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