Re: Root device does not exist
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Thomas Poindessous wrote:
> I'm trying to reinstall a hurd box but I have some problems. I know these
> problems have been answered a lot of time befor but I don't find the
> answers and I'm a little tired today.
> I have build my partition (hdd1) with mke2fs -o hurd -O none /dev/hdd1 and
> after mounting, tar --same-owner -p -xvzf gnu-20000913.tar.gz (from
> alpha.gnu.org tar of 13 sept). After I reboot, grub:
> root (hd1,0) (I have a HD in hda, a CDROM in hdc and the hurd drive in hdd)
> kernel /boot/gnumach.gz root=hd3s1 -s
> module /boot/serverboot.gz
>
> And during the boot:
> Partition check:
> hd0: hd0s1 hd0s2
> hd3: hd3s1
>
> ...
> And:
> Root device hd3s1 does not exist
> Root device name ? [hd3s1]
>
> What should I do ?
This problem is known, but I have no clue what now should happen with it.
For the meantime use Marcus Brinkmann's special gnumach:
http://master.debian.org/~brinkmd/gnumach_1.2-4.special_hurd-i386.deb
flo
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