I finally remembered that I can just use vanilla debian gnumach.gz to boot since I switched back to the adaptec scsi. For some reason when I compile gnumach with aic7xxx it results in a kernel panic, but the debian flavor works fine.
Anyways, I installed grub onto the Hurd partition and chainload it using lilo. Seems to work just fine and I still get the nifty hacked lilo screen with the cute penguins running around :-) It would be cool to add this functionality to grub as I do prefer it over lilo.
When I upgraded I ran into the missing update-rc.d problem but fixed it by extracting it from the new hurd-... deb as was said in a previous post.
I guess you already know that Emacs21 is broken. It failed to install while compiling its elisp files. Since it is the only web browser for Hurd that I'm aware of excepting Emacs20 I suppose its kind of important.
I noticed that the new XFree86 debs fix a bug where the console text would get darker after starting and stopping X until it became invisible after 3 or 4 times. This is with the "nv" driver on a Geforce2MX.
Q: I have installed the OSKit deb. I presume that it is all that is required to try and build OSKit-Mach from source these days?
Q: Where is the "official" debian source deb or cvs for gnumach?
Q: Where is the "official" repository for OSKit-Mach these days?
Thanks for any answers. I'm happy I can boot Hurd again.
- Doug
