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Booting the Hurd ?



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Hi, 

 Following the flame war on debian-devel about the Hurd, 
I installed it to get an opinion by myself, as I don't have prior 
experience about micro-kernels. 

 So, I managed to install it alright, ... but I can't boot it !!! 

 The statement by Linus 10 years back is still valid. What 
the purpose to have a new design, a micro-kernel and 
whatever if it is not even remotely useable ? Developpers 
have managed to compile half of Debian packages, but 
they did not even think to provide a way to boot it ! 

 Installation of Grub is not even available from the CD. 
And once installed from Linux, I can boot Linux with 
Grub, so Grub by itself is OK. 

 I have tried quite a lot of Linux distributions (probably 
more than 30 different flavours, altogether), however 
I didn't ever see anything as bad as this. And you say 
that development of the Hurd started in the 80s ? 
Pffff ! Even my first RedHat was better that this. 

 A bit of thinking about that would be great from the 
Hurd people. 

 Cheers, 
Yann 

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Chef de projet Linux / Linux project manager
Juillerat-Grin SA
http://www.codalis.ch
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