Re: Please test debootstrap
Hi,
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 08:56:35PM +0200, Luca Capello wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:44:20 +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> > the latest debootstrap upload (1.0.2) should (in theory) work fine
> > on hurd-i386 now, at least to build chroots. So if people want to
> > check that out and report problems (to this list), that'd be nice.
>
> I took it as the possibility to re-install Hurd :-)
>
> About my test, since my laptop [1] isn't fully supported, I plan to
> use Hurd on QEmu and thus I created a 4G qemu-img. I booted QEmu
> through the Debian Sarge debian-31r6a-i386-binary-1.iso [2], created
> one big partition for / via d-i and then in a console created the ext2
> filesystem as explained at [3]. The debootstrap process finished
> successfully, but debootsrap.log contains an error:
>
> /usr/lib/debootstrap/functions: line 838: /bin/settrans: \
> No such file or directory
cross-debootstrap isn't supported yet I think, due to this - probably
debootstrap should abort rather.
It would be nice if we could figure out how to make this better -
without changing deboostrap too much.
> As I cannot chroot in it because I'm on an amd64 sid, I tested it
> directly on QEmu, with the grub-disk image from etch [4]. The boot is
> OK, but it stops at:
>
> Hurd server bootstrap: ext2fs.static[device:hd0s1] execext2fs.static
> /build/mblank/hurd-20070606/built-tree/hurd/libdiskfs/boot-start.c:396:
> diskfs_execboot_fsys_startup: Unexpected error: No such file or
> directory
>
> Sorry, I haven't had time yet to investigate the QEmu error.
That looks like GRUB config issue maybe, make sure at least
/hurd/ext2fs.static etc. exist on that partition, can you paste your
GRUB config?
Michael
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