Re: Re: booting and servers.boot
Thanks Igor,
I greatly appreciate the help, you were right I did confuse my
partitioning methods.
Now I can let the fun begin..
Matt G.
---- On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Igor Khavkine
(i_khavki@alcor.concordia.ca) wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 08:19:33AM -0400, Matthew Grant wrote:
> > I don't know what this error is all about(new guy). I got a
ISO
> > Image
> > from ftp.fsn.hu dated May 9th. I booted from the Cdrom and
made
> > a 700MB ext2 partition. I installed the base system. made a
> > grub
> > floppy and used the commands
> >
> > root (hd0,0)
> > kernel=/boot/gnumach.gz root=(hd0s0 -s
> > module=/boot/bootserver.gz
>
> Should be `kernel=/boot/gnumach/gz root=hd0s1 -s
>
> > this loads the kernel then after the detection of the nic
and
> > the
> > com ports I get this error, inaproriate filetype or format
and
> > it asks me for the right one
> > [/dev/hd0s0/boot/servers.boot]
>
> This looks like the cause of the error. Mach starts counting
> partitions from 1 and devices from zero. So the first
partition
> on the first drive (or hda1 in linux) is hd0s1 and not hd0s0.
> Don't confuse it with the way grub numbers partitions and
devices,
> they both start from zero.
>
> Igor
>
> > I took the disk home to install on one of my test PCs and I
> > did it by extracting the Hurdbase.tgz file into the
partiton I
> > wanted it on so I put it on the same one I tryed at work
> > /dev/hda or hd0s0 and this time I got.
> >
> > file not found
> > [dev/hd0s0/boot/servers.boot]
> >
> > I mounted it from my debian disk and looked in the boot
> > directory and I saw the file in there along with a
> > server.boot.dpkg-new file.
> >
> > I am really interested in getting Hurd booted. I have been
> > looking in the mailing list archives for some clues. I saw
a
> > tip that said copy the servers.boot.dpkg-new to the
> > servers.boot
> > file, but that didn't do it for me.
> >
> > If anyone has had a similar problem or knows what I might
be
> > doing wrong please let me know.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Matt G.
>
>
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