I'm cross posting this to help-hurd and debian-hurd. Probably bad form, but there is so little trafic on either list, I'm trying to convince myself that others are still interested in HURD.
I just started a new hurd installation on a zip disk. It's only 96meg, but I figure it'll do for the root partion, and I can probably store source etc, in a directory on my linux /usr/local partion after I've booted the hurd. I installed the ghhk. Straight forward, except I didn't know what changes if any to make from step5 of the ghhk INSTALL; 5) Copy /gnu/boot/servers.boot.in to /gnu/boot/servers.boot and edit it to reflect your machine's configuration. What changes do I make here. A pointer to some more documentation would be good. I made no changes and it booted! Booting off the GRUB boot disk works fine. I notice two error, neither of which seem fatal. hurd/init seems to be missing the /dev/console and /libexec/rc. The console I haven't created, yet, I think I saw a reference to creating devices somewhere. The /libexec/rc, I have no idea about. I assume it's a script to start some processes in the startup? Next I installed the tar ball of dpkg that I found at. http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ None of the dpkg commands work. The system locks up with the following error, libdpkg.so.0.0 object file: no such file or directory. Finally a GRUB question. I can't seem to boot my linux partion from GRUB. The kernel starts alright, but then there is a VFS panic, as the root file system cannot be mounted. I think this is because I boot of the first scsi disk not ide. I have the following line (bios=0x80) in my lilo.conf boot=/dev/sda root=/dev/sda2 compact install=/boot/boot.b prompt append="mem=128M" timeout=50 map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 disk=/dev/sda bios=0x80 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.1.116 label=linux image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.1.115 label=linux115 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.35 label=linux35 read-only I like GRUB much better than lilo, and would like to use it to boot both operating systems. If it's possible, it would probably make the shift from a linux to linux & hurd dual boot system, much easier. Failing that, is there any reason I can't boot hurd using lilo? -- Binary Bar - Australia's first free access internet bar/cafe/gallery. 243 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia. 3pm - 1am http://www.binary.net.au/
