Re: cannot boot subhurd

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 05:59:32PM +0800, Da Zheng wrote:
> On 09-12-29 ??????5:42, olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:45:50PM +0800, Da Zheng wrote:

> >> #boot servers.boot /dev/hd1
> > 
> > Err... /dev/hd1? That's almost certainly wrong. You want to boot
> > from a partition, not from a drive...
> > 
> > (I guess some kind of check for an invalid partition instead of a
> > hang would be nice though...)

> But it always worked before. I can also mount /dev/hd1 to my file
> system. 'settrans -a subhurd /hurd/ext2fs /dev/hd1' works on my
> system.

Have you put a filesystem on /dev/hd1 without partitioning it? That's
certainly unusual... But if it is so, I guess that's not the reason for
the failure.

> antrik, have you used my modified subhurd? I wanted to try samuel's
> patch and see whether the patch can fix the bug in the modified
> subhurd (subhurd sometimes hangs). Can you try that for me if you have
> the time and if you have my modified subhurd?

Unfortunately, I don't have either right now...

-antrik-