Well, after lurking on this list for several months, I finally decided to try installing the Hurd again... It's certainly a lot more stable then back in August. However, I've run in to a problem with my setup.
I've got my hurd root partition set up on /dev/hd0s10, which is too far out on the disk for Grub to be able to boot directly. I've been able to work around this by copying the files gnumach.gz, serverboot.gz and servers.boot to /dev/hd0s1, which is my /boot partition for linux. My grub menu file loads gnumach.gz off (hd0,0) with the arguement root=/dev/hd0s10. This worked fine for installation and configuring, but when I updated my gnumach and hurd packages, the copies on the other partition do not get updated (unless I copy them by hand). I'd like to get /boot on the hurd to "mount" up to the partition /dev/hd0s1. I set up a translator with the command "settrans -c /boot /hurd/ext2fs /dev/hd0s1". Now the Hurd will not boot, as it cannot find the file "/dev/hd0s10//boot/servers.boot" durring the boot process. I'm sure I can go back to the way I had it before if I recreate the /boot directory and put servers.boot back in there, but that is not a very satisfying solution. Is this something that is simply impossible to solve, because the design of the boot process requires /boot to be part of the root partition? Any good workarounds? -- Steven Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] We would like to assure you that the guided missiles currently converging with your ship are part of a special service we extend to all of our most enthusiastic clients, and the fully armed nuclear warheads are of course merely a courtesy detail. -- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
