Actually, I figured it out. I was missing the -o 32256 option to losetup. On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 11:14:18PM -0400, Norbert Veber wrote: > Hi, > > I saw this message in the archives and its replies: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2002/debian-hurd-200205/msg00131.html > > Did anyone ever get this to work? > > My problem is that grub boots, but cant find any partitions on the disk > image. > > root (hd0) > file system type unknown, using the whole disk > root (hd0,0) > partition table invalid or corrupt > find /boot/gnumach.gz > File not found > > The instructions on > ftp://walfield.org/pub/people/ams/hurd/creating_bochs_image_for_gnu.txt > say that you should write a partition table to the loopback device with > fdisk, but not create any partititons. That is what I did, but it didnt > work. I also tried to create a partition, but was unable to mount it to > do the cross-install. /dev/loop0 is the equivalent of say /dev/hda, but > there is no loop equivalent for /dev/hda1. > > What I did was: > createdisk hurd.hd0 512 > get the grub.ext2 image, and rename it to grub.fd0 > setup the .bochsrc to refference these files > losetup /dev/loop1 hurd.hd0 > write a partition table with fdisk (I also tried skipping this) > mkfs -t ext2 -o hurd /dev/loop0 > mount, and run the cross-install /mnt > unmount, losetup -d, and run /usr/lib/bochs/bochs-x (the debian wrapper > seems broken) > grub came up but couldnt find the kernel :( > > It seems others have this problem too: > https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/bochs-developers/2000-June/000785.html > > Supposedly people have gotten this to work, but I cant imagine how. > > Any ideas? > > PS. I am not subscribed to the list..
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