Hi, this is a short status summary.
If you create partitions with ext2fsprogs 1.18, you face two problems: You need grub 0.5.93.1 to recognize the partition (older versions will not work). If you don't have it, the partition will not be recognized or recognized incorrectly, and the files (gnumach, serverboot) will not be found. You need a new serverboot to bootstrap the Hurd. If you don't have it, Gnumach will only go so far as recognizing the serial console and the probably printing out a strange error message and halt. A new grub boot floppy is available at alpha.gnu.org, in ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-boot-0.5.93.1.image A new serverboot is available at ftp://ftp.ai.mit.edu/pub/users/roland/ Alternatively, you can avoid both problems by downgrading e2fsprogs and recreating the partition. Why is there no new hurd package with the new serverboot? I updated my cross compilation environment and can't temporarily cross compile the Hurd. A native compile is spurious because of the file corruption problems I face. If the file corruption problem persists, I will temporarily downgrade my cross comp environement, but I would prefer not to do this. Anyway, that's the current situation. Please help new people who didn't read this mail and face one of the problems the next time. I apologize for realizing the problems this late. I did not update to the new e2fsprogs until a few days ago, and did not do a fresh install since then. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org for public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
