Quick notes:
- dhcp does not work. Known problem, I think.
- booting with a disk of >4 GiB fails, so I used 3 GiB.
- various error messages about absent /proc/mounts, mtab, not enough
memory for lvm, etc to ignore
- installing GRUB as part of the installation fails:
chroot: can't execute 'grub-probe': No such file or directory
- menu item 'nobootloader' also fails:
Wrong number of args: mapdevfs <path>
- so menu item 'finish-install' fails
- resulting disk does not boot on its own.
So to boot I tried entering from GRUB[1] on the installer CD:
# set root fs
root (hd0,msdos1)
cat /boot/servers.boot
multiboot /boot/gnumach.gz root=device:hd0s1
module /hurd/ext2fs.static ext2fs \
--multiboot-command-line='${kernel-command-line}' \
--host-priv-port='${host-port}' \
--device-master-port='${device-port}' \
--exec-server-task='${exec-task}' -T typed '${root}' \
'$(task-create)' '$(task-resume)'
module /lib/ld.so.1 exec /hurd/exec '$(exec-task=task-create)'
For the first try, I used --readonly. It booted partway and stoped at
start ext2fs: Hurd server bootstrap: ext2fs[device:hd0s1] exec init
proc auth
After a few more tries, it mounts swap and then
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.16.2
hd2: irq timeout: status=0x50
hd2: irq timeout: status=0x50
hd2: irq timeout: status=0x50
hd2: unexpected_intr: status=0x58
[etc]
I'll contact admin@strauss for an account. :)
Cheers.
Jonathan
[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#GNU_002fHurd
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