GRUB 2 for booting a Hurd system (was: Real partition under QEMU)

[Thomas Schwinge]

[Cced to bug-hurd as it might also be of interest there.]


Hello!

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 07:10:29PM +0200, Luca Capello wrote:
> On Sun, 01 Oct 2006 14:46:22 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Luca Capello, le Sun 01 Oct 2006 11:48:58 +0200, a ??crit :
> >> Well, here what appears on the grub console (grub-0.95 or
> >> grub-0.97):
> >> 
> >> grub> root (hd0)
> >>  Filesystem type unknown, using whole disk
> >
> > Ok. So you need a partition table indeed (and give (hd0,0) as root
> > to grub). Please also give root=device:hd0s1 as parameter to
> > gnumach...
> 
> For the record, grub2 supports the solution Samuel posted before,
> i.e. it recognizes the partition /dev/hda10 as a real partition, even
> if there's no partition table on it.

GRUB 2 supports reading files from a ``whole disk partition'', you mean?
One more reason to switch to GRUB 2...

> Thus, my grub2 entry for qemu is the following:
> 
>   menuentry "Debian GNU/Hurd" {
>       set root=(hd0)
>       multiboot /boot/gnumach.gz root=device:hd0
>       module /hurd/ext2fs.static \
>              --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)' '$(task-resume)'
>       module /lib/ld.so.1 /hurd/exec '$(exec-task=task-create)'
>   }
> 
> Note the single quotes used to escape $, { and }.

As far as I know you're the first one to have tried and succeed with
booting GNU Mach and the Hurd using GRUB 2.  Congratulations!


Regards,
 Thomas

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