Hi, a friend of mine gave me an old 520 megs Harddisk, wich I now configured to be primary master. It's now possible to boot from this harddisk, because my BIOS can manage this type of Harddisk. my bios still hangs, when i enter the values of my 40 gigs hd.
Here is my partitioning-list (linux notation style): hda is bootable: hda1:15 megs -> linux /boot hda2:500 megs --> hurd partition hdc is not bootable hdc1:256 megs --> linux/hurd swap hdc2:about 40 gig --> root I know this type of partitioning isn't very secure, but my machine is not connected to anything (network or internet), so this doesn't bother me. because of some linux-reconfiguration yesterday (got this "new" hd), i was not able to try out your script, but i'll do it right after work today. I just have got another question: You told me, I would have a GNU/Hurd Installation mounted in /gnu. Does this mean I have to cross-install the hurd-system before creating the boot-floppy? Thanks Florian Quetting -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Original letter: On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 10:39:46AM +0200, Florian Quetting wrote: > Is there any other chance to install HURD, without the need of flashing my > BIOS? You can try, but it is not easy. The below script was written by John Tobey, it's a long time since it was tested. But you can try anyway, nothing has changed that should make it not work. I did a few changes to make it suit your needs. You can also look up my old mail: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-hurd-9909/msg00079.html Note that you need a GNU/Hurd installation mounted in /gnu and a mount point /floppy for the floppy drive (not mounted). If the files don't fit on a floppy, try to use bzip2 instead gzip, or try a smaller kernel. You didn't tell me your Hurd partition. Edit the below GRUB config file to match your needs, just as described in the install docs. Report back to us how it worked! Thanks, Marcus
