Package: hurd Version: 20080607-6 The native-install script installed by crosshurd 1.7.33 exits after echoing: Checking if your filesystem is really writeable.. failed to identify system when the --readonly flag has been passed to the /hurd/ext2fs.static module on the grub command line. Micheal notes that "settrans -c /servers/socket/1 /hurd/pfocal" wants to set a passive translator.