Hi,
I just wanted to install HURD on my spare 340Mb Disk (IDE) and I now have a little
(well, it's not that little...) problem:
I ran cross-install from my linux-system and it installed everything without any
problems. I quickly browsed the directories created and eveything looked OK. So I
fired up my grub boot disk and tried to load hurd. But after typing
"kernel=/boot/gnumach.gz root=hd2s1 -s" I got a "file not found". I quickly
checked this by doing a "kernel=/" followed by a <tab>, and all directories looked
crippled (i.e. "boot" had two strange ascii-characters behind it etc.) Only a few
directories were uncrippled, but inside them were again crippled dirs. I then
checked this with a little program for Windows (ext2fs) and it, too showed the
strange directory names. But in Linux everything looks (and works) OK, so I
wondered if the ext2-filesystem may have undergone some dramatic change lately??
The last thing I tried was copying /boot/gnumach.gz and /boot/serverboot.gz to my
dos-disk (FAT16) and to load them from there. The first try didn't succeed because
the file serverboot.gz was compressed (I got some errorcode 8000 - or was it 6000
- after hurd booted -> kernel panic), so I uncompressed it and tried again. This
time I got no error but the system locked up quietly.
I tried everything again then (fdisk -> mkfs -> cross-install ->...) but without
success.
If you have any ideas (is my HDD defective? It ran Linux fine about 2 months ago
when I last used it) please mail me.
Thanx,
Michael
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