Re: Problems installing hurd on i386

[Philip Charles <philipc@copyleft.co.nz>]

On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote:

> hi,
> 
> >>>>> "Philip" == Philip Charles <philipc@copyleft.co.nz> writes:
> 
>     Philip> Prabhu, I lost a day tangled up in Linux, Grub and HURD
>     Philip> partition names.  Could this be your problem?
> 
> 	Well, I think not.  On linux, the partition I have for Hurd is
> /dev/hda12.
> 
> $ df -h /gnu
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda12            988M   42M  896M   4% /gnu
> $
> 
> And this is how I got grub to start the boot process.
> 
> root=(hd0,11)
> kernel=/boot/gnumach.gz root=hd0s12 -s
> module=/boot/serverboot.gz
> boot
> 
> So AFAIK, all of this is correct and all of the /boot files were tab
> completed, which means grub saw them.
> 
> Could it be the size of the partition?
> 
> Can you tell me what happens after the scsi initialization (i.e after
> the scsi detected 0 hosts total or somesuch)?
> 

If your root file-system is mounted on /gnu (the tarball is this) rather
than / the you need to use:-

kernel=/gnu/boot/gnumach.gz root=hd0s12 -s
module=/gnu/boot/serverboot.gz
boot

Another little confusion.

Phil.

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