Re: Booting the Hurd ?
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 05:16:22PM +0200, Yann Forget wrote:
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> Hi,
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> 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.
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> So, I managed to install it alright, ... but I can't boot it !!!
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> 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 !
Assuming GNU is installed as you say, you just need the
proper GRUB commands in menu.lst (see the template in
/share/doc/grub/examples)
> Installation of Grub is not even available from the CD.
We've been unable to convince the bootdisk people to
switch to GRUB, any help on that is welcome of course :)
Also there's a new installer that uses GRUB, maybe it comes
with Debian 3.1:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2002/debian-boot-200202/msg00943.html
> 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.
you could be disappointed because you haven't read Roland's
explanation:
"We're way ahead of you here. The Hurd has always been on the
cutting edge of not being good for anything." (Roland McGrath)
> And you say
> that development of the Hurd started in the 80s ?
Developement of GNU started in the 80s, developement
of the Hurd started in 1991.
cheers,
--
Robert Millan
"5 years from now everyone will be running
free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5"
Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992
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