On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:29:34PM +0000, Robert Lemmen wrote: > - apparently it tries to create a /etc/fstab for me, which fails with a > "Couldn't determine root partition, sorry".
Hrm, that seems to be a new bug. > - if i try to run nano it gives me a "Error opening terminal: unknown" That is expected for the single-user mode, at least on the first bootup; you can work around it by running "export TERM=mach" e.g. > - hurd comes up ok, but can't login because i don't know the password, > so rebooted into linux and set something in /etc/shadow That one has been reported by Philip Charles as well; we need to figure out what is causing this. > - something wrong with my fstab however, if i enter a swap partition there and > do a "swapon -a" it fails, looks like i have no /dev/hd0s2. in fact i only > had a /dev/hd0... after the restart i could run MAKEDEV myself without > problems, so that fixes this > i think the original makedev problem was that it could not figure out what > my > root fs was, so that variable was not set... Yeah, I guess so. > so summing up: quite smooth except for the makedev thing and the fact > that there is no root password set, i'll look into the makedev problem > next time! thanks again for the follow-up, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
