> My hope is to have it create the boot disk under Linux without > requiring a reboot. The resulting disk boots goes fine until this: > > Hit return to resume /hurd/ext2fs.static.gz<RET> > /hurd/ext2fs.static.gz: fd0: Invalid argument > > Was I supposed to insert the root disk when it asked for a return?
Yes. That's why it pauses! I'm not sure why you are getting exactly that error message, though. > Perhaps my script corrupts the floppy filesystem with dd, grub, and/or > failing to sync at the right times. Check the filesystem by running e2fsck on the floppy under linux after you write it.
