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Re: Panic: bad magic number


with the new partition table I could boot the mach.
After a 'export TERM=mach' and './native-install' I had my debian 
gnu/hurd installed. I had not to reboot the system and do a second 
'./native-install'
    
Yes, running it once should be enough these days.  Where did you read
about having to run it twice?
http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install
I knew the page from debian (I am debian GNU/Linux user), but the same page is reported on the gnu-hurd site (http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/#index4h2).

The think that at the moment I would change:

- Chapter 2 (Real Estate or Finding A Home):

  # mke2fs -b 4096 -I 128 -o hurd /dev/hda2 --> # mke2fs -o hurd /dev/hda2

  (-o hurd does exactly -b 4096 && -I 128, not reason to repeat)

- Chapter 6 (Native Install):

Before the script terminates, it will indicate that it needs to be run a second time. Follow its instructions and reboot using the reboot command. Again, go into single user mode and run ./native-install.

This is not necessary.

At the moment I would also change the chapter 5 (Booting GNU/Hurd) with the insertion directly in /boot/grub/menu.lst (will said on chapter 8.1, The Grub Menu) because you have to copy the lines with the modules elsewhere; with menu.lst you don't need this (but I recognize that could be only philosophy this approach).

/After reboot on multi-user mode the Hurd console started automatically. 
I controlled on /etc/default/hurd-console the string 'ENABLE', but it 
was setting to 'false'... I don't know why, I tried others reboot but 
I've got always the console started automatically.
    
Yes, but that's probably the Mach console, not the Hurd one.
I don't think so. The mach console is for me that with for example the single-user mode (...#), the Hurd console is that one that begins with GNU 0.3 (myhostname) (console) ... login>. I made some trials with QEMU and I had always to put in /etc/default/hurd-console ENABLE='true' to start this console.
 With this installation ENABLE is set to 'false' but the hurd console still booting.

Actually I've got others problem (like for example a freeze of the 
system by taping "Shift" or "Control")
    
That's strange.  Can you tell us more about that?
I think is a problem with an Apple USB keybord (also in the installation I had the same problem). I always had problem with this keyboard (also in GNU/Linux) but unfortunately I always found a solution and still have this one. With QEMU I solved the problem with the package:  http://packages.hurdfr.org/experimental/binary-hurd-i386/clavier_0.2_hurd-i386.deb
I think "Shift" and "Control" are not really patched and the System goes into an infinite loop.

For the partition table problem, it will be interesting to know if the 
problem was a too higher index of the partition or a logical partition 
or a partition at the end of the disk. Maybe when I find a little bit of 
time i will try with another disk and different partition tables.
    
OK, please report back your findings.
It wouldn't be tomorrow but if I do it I will report for sure the results.


Cheers,

Bruno
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