Hurd boot problems

[nyugalomszigete <zozo.malac@freemail.hu>]

Hello everyone! I'm new to this list and Hurd, and I have problems booting it up.

I installed, as it is instructed in the Debian GNU/Hurd Installation, but there are some problems: I can't get Hurd to boot properly with the grub commands described there.

I try to boot it with this:
kernel (hd2,0)/boot/gnumach.gz root=device:hd2s1 -s
module (hd2,0)/hurd/ext2fs.static --host-priv-port=${host-port} --device-master-port=${device-port} --exec-server-task=${exec-task} -T typed ${root} $(task-create) $(task-resume)
module (hd2,0)/lib/ld.so.1 /hurd/exec $(exec-task-task-create)

but it has some problems with the ext2fs.static module (if I remove it, it won't boot, but at least the error disappears). It says something like this:

panic: boot script error: undefined symbols

and then reboots.

I could inly boot the older (2003.11.21) tarball from http://eu.hurd.gnuab.org/pub/debian/base/ but it too had problems with the above, so I have to boot it like this:

kernel (hd2,0)/boot/gnumach.gz root=hd2s1 -s
module (hd2,0)/bootserverboot.gz

With the most recent one (2004.05.09) it boots up and I receive the prompt ok, but it mounts the root filesystem read-only, thus ./native-install will fail.

Any suggestions are welcome.

Zoltan Dome