On 4 Nov, Manuel Hoppe wrote: > Hi! > > Im new to hurd and want to test the J2 images. > Well, the first strange thing to me was: I created three Hurd > partitions, but when I tried to initialize them it failed. Then I > initialized them a ext2 and succeed. Did I missunderstood something? > > After that, I initializes all partitions with ext2 and installes the > base system. Due there was no "make Hurd bootable" or anything other > step after the install, I rebooted the system. And nothing boot on > harddisk. :-( > > What went wrong? > > Confused me for a while as well. You can initialize the main root partition, but the others dump you back to the start of the installation process (the notices...), and don't let you specify a mount point (is this a bug in the installer??). As for reboot - you need a GRUB bootdisk (or GRUB as your main bootloader), and to boot from that with commands like: root(hd0,0) ; /dev/hda1 in Linux-speak, /dev/hd0s1 in HURD-Speak kernel /boot/gnumach.gz root=/dev/hd0s0 module /boot/serverboot.gz boot This is all detailed in the cookbook file (which seems out of date) - mix those instructions with instructions given by the ./native-install.sh script. Alex
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