Hi,
It sounds like you are using the latest version of e2fsprogs.
There was an incompatibility in that version that was fixed in
grub 0.5.92.1 and the latest hurd package.
If you really want to install the tar ball, you will need to
downgrade you e2fsprogs or pass -o mke2fs.
Check the mailing list archive around the begining of the year
for the whole problem description (debian.org/MailingLists/....)
-Neal
On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 03:05:30PM +0100, Stefan Karrmann wrote:
> I am trying to boot hurd from hda10 (600 MB partition of an 16 GB disk,
> with first 10 GB for Linux). I use the tarball from Marcus (gnu-199910...)
> and (optionally) the serverboot module from Roland.
>
> >From Linux the Hurd root tree looks quite normal, but GRUB sees only
> a strange boot directory.
>
> -- snip protocoll of GRUB 0.5.92 --
>
> root=(hd0,9)
> [ ... ext2 ... ]
> kernel=/bootU{/gnumach.gz
> ^ well, it's an upside down U - no latin1 character.
> ^^ grub provides this strange characters using TAB
> linux don't shows them!
>
> [ Multiboot-elf ...]
>
> modules=/bootU{/serverboot
> ^^ see above
>
> [ Multiboot-module ...]
>
> boot
> -- snip end --
>
> Well I have not checked other directories than /boot ..
> In spite of this strange directory, gnumach starts as expected,
> but stopped after detecting com1 until I press a key.
>
> -- snip messages from Gnumach 1.2 --
> ...
> com1: at atbus1, port=2f8, ...
> -- in snip <Waiting until keypressed ...> --
> Kernel page fault at address 0x0, eip=0x11a032
> Kernel Page fault trap, eip 0x11a032
> kernel trap, type 14, code 0
> Dump of i386_saved_state 002a2de8:
> EAX 002a55ac EBX 002a55ac ECX 00000000 EDX 002a55ac
> ESI 00000003 EDI changing, eg: 0200624c ffffff7d EBP 002a2e2c ESP
> 002a2e40
> CS 00000008 SS 0000712e DS 00000010 ES 00000010 FS 00000000 GS 00000000
> 00000000
> v86: DS 000073c0 ES 000055ac FS 00002e54 GS
> 00002e54
> EIP 0011a932 EFLAGS 00010293
> trapno 14: Page fault, error 00000000
> panic: trap
> -- snip end --
>
> Most of the register values are reproducable.
>
> How can I manage to boot Hurd? Should I move the Hurd partition to the
> beginning of my HD?
>
> --
> Stefan Karrmann
>
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