Would you please let me know how you get on. Next step, a ramdisk. Phil.
On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Glenn McGrath wrote: > Im playing around trying to make some boot floppies using the gnumach > kernel from my recent install. > > I have the grub stuff, /boot/gnumach.gz, /hurd/ext2fs.static.gz, > /lib/ld.so.1.gz and /hurd/exec on the boot disk, im using the menu.lst > from my main GNU/Hurd system except targeting fd0 instead of the hard disk > and adding "pause Insert root disk" after the modules to allow a root > floppy to be inserted. (well thats the plan) > > Im not sure how correct what ive done above is, however the error i get is > > ... hypermetadata: disk size (737280 bytes) too small superblock says we > need 1474560 > and it ends there. > > storeinfo /dev/fd0 reports > device (enf; 0x200); fd0:512:1440;737280:0+1440 > > So it looks like gnumach (i assume the floppy driver is in gnumach) thinks > my floppy is the old 720kB format rather than its actual 1440kB. > > Are 1440kB floppies supported, or have i done something wrong ? > > I did see some instructions for make a boot disk in the mail archives, > however i suspect the info maybe outdated now. > http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/1999/debian-hurd-199909/msg00079.html > > > Glenn > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-hurd mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd > > -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818 Fax +64 3 488 2875 Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sell GNU/Linux & GNU/Hurd CDs. See http://www.copyleft.co.nz _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
