On dim, 2004-02-29 at 05:35, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Create the filesystem with parted (mkfs 1 ext2). This is however a > Linux owned filesystem, but we need the Hurd owner to be able to set > translators. It will also have the filetype feature set, which we > don't use on the Hurd. So I mangled it a bit: > > $ dd if=~/.bochs/guest.hd0 of=/tmp/hd0 bs=512 skip=63 > > (63 is the start of the filesystem). Note that this will make a copy > of the whole disk image except for the very beginning. Well, there > are other ways to do that, but we need to get rid of the filetype > feature and this requires running (eventually) e2fsck on the > filesystem. So, either you need lots of disk space, or defer the > e2fsck until you actually have the Hurd up and running, but then you > will have to let it clear all those filetype flags then. > > $ file /tmp/hd0s1 > /tmp/hd0: Linux rev 1.0 ext2 filesystem data > > $ e2os.sh /tmp/hd0s1 hurd > > The e2os script is in the Hurd CVS in the directory sutils/.
I wrote something about hurd in bochs some time ago: http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2003/debian-hurd-200303/msg00065.html and mostly the same information is there too: http://www.asyd.net/docs/hurd/bochs-hurd.html Some of them is outdated, but the following should still work, to make the filesystem: <quote> 3. Making a filesystem (you need to be root to do that) #losetup /dev/loop0 /hurd/hurd.img -o 32256 (that magical offset value is bytes/sector times sectors/cylinder, and gives access to the partition we created, keeping the partition table safe) #mkfs.ext2 -o hurd /dev/loop0 <quote/> Hope this helps, Snark on freenode
