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Re: root-device



> Sorry for speking some fussy.
> Before gnumach.gz is loaded there are outputs which ide.devices have been found,
> therefore the  
> 
>     hd0s1  hd0s2
>     hd1s1  hd1s2 hd1s3
> 
> which I can see.
> Then, as you said, gnumach is not able to read the root partition and prompts for it.
> I tried all partitions I have at this prompt, but gnumach cannont find any.
> btw - I do pass the '-s' option, forgot to mention this here...
> 

When I boot, I get:

Partition check (DOS partitions):
 sd0: sd0s1 sd0s2 sd0s3 sd0s4 <sd0s5 sd0s6 sd0s7>
 hd0: hd0s1 hd0s2 hd0s3 hd0s4

gnumach then detects my com ports and prompts me for the root device name
(ie: root device []?) Note that if you make a mistake and hit backspace,
you fuck yourself.  So, do not make errors.

I type in sd0s5 and it starts booting as normal.

If this does not help, what version of the tarball / hurd package are you
using?  There was a bug in old hurd packages (Jan 2000) where this would
happen (grub could read the ext2fs partition but the hurd could not).

-Neal

-- 
Neal H Walfield
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
neal@walfield.org or nwalfiel@cs.uml.edu


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