Hi! >>>>> Fredrick Paul Eisele writes:
FPE> Will the HURD boot loader be LILO or GRUB or something else? As Mark said, GRUB. FPE> I am looking for a package to maintain that is particularly FPE> needed by the HURD. GRUB is definitely needed. The only problem is that it is difficult to package ``properly.'' I don't know how LILO is packaged in Debian, but the problem with GRUB is that there is no Linux tool for managing your GRUB configuration. The important part of GRUB's installation currently has to be done within GRUB itself (i.e. at boot time), which throws a monkey wrench into automatic upgrades. If you replace /boot/grub/stage2, then you essentially destroy the machine's boot setup until you are able to boot from a GRUB floppy and run something like install= (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 0x8000 p If you or anybody else is interested in writing a lilo(8)-like tool to install GRUB from under Linux, then you should have a look at grub-0.5/docs/embedded_data.txt, the description of `install=' in commands.txt, and take a look at PC_partitioning.txt. If all that seems simple enough to you, then please talk with Erich Boleyn. The next step would probably be to write up a proposal for a boot tool, CC this list (and probably also [email protected]), and talk about it with a few people to see what would be useful. Until GRUB has a Linux tool that can automatically manage installations, it's going to be a pretty big PITA for new Hurd users to figure out. It already has been up to this point. :( -- Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> //\ I'm a FIG (http://www.fig.org/) Lovers of freedom, unite! \// I use GNU (http://www.gnu.org/)
