Re: Booting Hurd with a serial console
On 2004-09-10, 15:36, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> This works, thanks! Theproblem I have is that when I login, I get a
> "login: chown: /dev/com0: Operation not permitted" message. I also
> got a "login: Timed out after 5 minutes.", (I were writing on the
> console at the time).
>
> Sounds as if login isn't suid root; a known bug in the Hurd package.
> Just make it suid root and the message should go away.
> By the way: I used Michael Bancks new installation method, and it
> worked without any major problems when I figured out the harddisk
> naming scheme.~
>
> You mean crosshurd? That is Jeff Bailey's work, not Michael's... If
> you don't mean crosshurd, then I'm not familiar with this new method.
> Would you like to explain it to me?
It's the "xattr-hurd" or whatever it is called, it's described in
http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2004/08/msg00006.html
// Simon
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