Antwort: Re: [HURD] boot from floppy
Hi,
a friend of mine gave me an old 520 megs Harddisk, wich I now configured to
be
primary master. It's now possible to boot from this harddisk, because my
BIOS
can manage this type of Harddisk. my bios still hangs, when i enter the
values
of my 40 gigs hd.
Here is my partitioning-list (linux notation style):
hda is bootable:
hda1:15 megs -> linux /boot
hda2:500 megs --> hurd partition
hdc is not bootable
hdc1:256 megs --> linux/hurd swap
hdc2:about 40 gig --> root
I know this type of partitioning isn't very secure, but my machine is not
connected
to anything (network or internet), so this doesn't bother me.
because of some linux-reconfiguration yesterday (got this "new" hd), i was
not able
to try out your script, but i'll do it right after work today.
I just have got another question:
You told me, I would have a GNU/Hurd Installation mounted in /gnu. Does
this mean I
have to cross-install the hurd-system before creating the boot-floppy?
Thanks
Florian Quetting
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Original letter:
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 10:39:46AM +0200, Florian Quetting wrote:
> Is there any other chance to install HURD, without the need of flashing
my
> BIOS?
You can try, but it is not easy. The below script was written by John
Tobey,
it's a long time since it was tested. But you can try anyway, nothing has
changed that should make it not work. I did a few changes to make it suit
your needs.
You can also look up my old mail:
http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-hurd-9909/msg00079.html
Note that you need a GNU/Hurd installation mounted in /gnu and a mount
point
/floppy for the floppy drive (not mounted).
If the files don't fit on a floppy, try to use bzip2 instead gzip, or try a
smaller kernel.
You didn't tell me your Hurd partition. Edit the below GRUB config file to
match your needs, just as described in the install docs.
Report back to us how it worked!
Thanks,
Marcus
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