On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 03:12:58PM +0200, Julio Merino wrote: > Hi all, > > I had Hurd working fine in a 520 Mb hard-disk and I decided to move it > to another hard disk. The new hard-disk is about 1,7 GB so I've done a > partition of 900 MB ( < 1 GB). Well, after cross-installing hurd and > booting in single user mode, I get that ext2fs.static can't mount the > partition because it's too big.
The complete error message may be helpful. You should copy it from the screen directly, and not summarize what you think it says. > Now, my partition table of that hard disk looks like this: > > Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 207 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hdb1 1 115 923706 83 Linux > > This is how I tried first to install it. > > And to create the filesystem, I'm using the potato's e2fs utils with: > mke2fs /dev/hdb1 -O sparse_super -o none -L HURD > which always worked for me in the old drive. "-o none" is wrong! Where did you get this? It should be -o hurd. > I'm using gnumach_1.2-5.deb and hurd_20000803.deb. Both worked fine > also with the other drive. Can you try gnuamch 1.2-6, please? 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]
