Samuel, 2026 Jul 02, 02:37 GMT-0400: > The problem is not ext2 vs ext4, but using -o hurd
I reformatted (then reinstalled on) the partition, this time being sure not to omit the -o hurd argument, and piping now works! I'm getting a variety of other errors from the install script but I'm going to try to troubleshoot it myself for a few days before asking for help again. > People tend to write new documentation, which then tends > to be only half-correct. I followed what I assume to be an official documentation here: https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/running/debian/CrossInstall.html The only adjustment I made from those instructions are changing the root device in the grub options to "device:sd0s9" (which took lots of trial and error and reading different hurd and grub documentations and output from my own boot attempts over the course of a few weeks) and, evidently, mistakenly running `mke2fs /dev/sda9` instead of `mke2fs -o hurd /dev/sda9` to format the partition before running cross-install. My apologies for the negligence. Thank you.
