Patrik Olsson, le Fri 09 Apr 2010 16:56:50 +0200, a écrit : > On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 15:35 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Patrik Olsson, le Fri 09 Apr 2010 15:13:17 +0200, a écrit : > > > What am I doing wrong? > > > > We can't say if you do not tell us what you do before ./native-install, > > i.e. the grub configuration etc. > > > > I followed this guide from point 5 (using grub1): > http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install
Well, ok, but I had checked that the steps described in that guide do work, so there is a problem of interpretation, we need to you explain with your own words which precise commands you run. Simple things like an extra --readonly or -s is already too much for native-install to work. > > > By the way. Why is not GRUB installed and configured together with the > > > system? > > > > Because like so many other things, nobody took the time to set that up. > > If I only knew how to do it, I would do it now. Well, unless I knew it > was a whole lot of complex work, which I assume it is since no one has > done it yet. :-P It's not necesarily so complex. I believe it has never been done before simply because before, there wasn't so much use of qemu & such, people would install it natively, and thus not want to see the installer overwrite the MBR... > As I understand it, the installation simply extracts a file called > baseGNU.tgz (at least that's the only thing I noticed it did). So > shouldn't it be possible to include grub configuration in it > (/boot/grub/?) Probably. Contact the author. > and then make the installation execute grub-install or > something. But I don't know, it's probably more complicated than that. It's as simple as that, except that you need to prompt the user whether to do so, and on which device. > > > It takes like 5 minutes to write in all that magic to get GRUB > > > starting the Hurd, and it is so error-prone. > > > > You can throw them in a config file and load it from the grub prompt > > thanks to the configfile command... > > I tried that, but it didn't work (I probably messed up, I had to write > the file using cat). Without describing the precise steps you followed, there is no way to find out whether there is a bug that deserves fixing, or whether you actually just messed up (but then the installation instruction probably need fixing !!) Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
