On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 10:54:30AM +0000, Philip Charles wrote: > On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote: > > > hi, > > > > >>>>> "Philip" == Philip Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Philip> If your root file-system is mounted on /gnu (the tarball > > Philip> is this) rather than / the you need to use:- > > > > Philip> kernel=/gnu/boot/gnumach.gz root=hd0s12 -s > > Philip> module=/gnu/boot/serverboot.gz boot > > > > Philip> Another little confusion. > > > > Are you sure? This is very funny. Because under linux I have > > mounted /dev/hda12 as /gnu and as far as grub is concerned there is no > > /gnu. In other words, there is no gnu directory under /dev/hda12. > > There is only a gnu directory on /dev/hda1 and I have mounted > > /dev/hda12 onto this directory. > > > > So from linux where /dev/hda12 is mounted as /gnu I get > > > > $ ls /gnu/boot/ > > gnumach.gz* serverboot.gz* servers.boot servers.boot.dpkg-new > > $ > > > > There is only a partition at (hd0,11) so if I said > > /gnu/boot/gnumach.gz grub will not find it at all. Right? > > > > When I looked at the installed tarball with Linux I saw /target/gnu/boot. > In fact all the root system was mounted on /target/gnu/ and not /target/ > /target was the mount-point for the HURD partition. > > What I did was to move the whole root file system to / which made things a > lot easier. I was working with an installation ram-disk when I did this.
This is one of the things I wanted to discuss with you, and myu main cncern with the CD's. This is how it is supposed to work: mkdir /gnu mount ... /gnu cd / tar --same-owner -xzpf ... So, the tar file is extracted in the top level dir. kernel = /gnu/boot etc is certainly very very wrong. The next tar file will probably extract in . rather than gnu. Oh, and the other thing is that I wanted to prepare a new and up to date tar file for the CD. Maybe for the next revision. 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] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
