On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 05:16:22PM +0200, Yann Forget wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > Following the flame war on debian-devel about the Hurd, > I installed it to get an opinion by myself, as I don't have prior > experience about micro-kernels. > > So, I managed to install it alright, ... but I can't boot it !!! > > The statement by Linus 10 years back is still valid. What > the purpose to have a new design, a micro-kernel and > whatever if it is not even remotely useable ? Developpers > have managed to compile half of Debian packages, but > they did not even think to provide a way to boot it !
Assuming GNU is installed as you say, you just need the proper GRUB commands in menu.lst (see the template in /share/doc/grub/examples) > Installation of Grub is not even available from the CD. We've been unable to convince the bootdisk people to switch to GRUB, any help on that is welcome of course :) Also there's a new installer that uses GRUB, maybe it comes with Debian 3.1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2002/debian-boot-200202/msg00943.html > I have tried quite a lot of Linux distributions (probably > more than 30 different flavours, altogether), however > I didn't ever see anything as bad as this. you could be disappointed because you haven't read Roland's explanation: "We're way ahead of you here. The Hurd has always been on the cutting edge of not being good for anything." (Roland McGrath) > And you say > that development of the Hurd started in the 80s ? Developement of GNU started in the 80s, developement of the Hurd started in 1991. cheers, -- Robert Millan "5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5" Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
