Re: Bootstraping the Hurd

[Michael Gruetzner]

On 26.12.2006, at 16:50, Paul Nema wrote:

> Not sure how grub works under a virtual PC.
> According to your boot command you are booting from disk partition  
> hd0,0 which would seem correct under a virtual PC.  Can you run the  
> equvialnt to:
> grub> find /boot/gnumach.gz
> and see what grub tells you?
GRUB tells me, that /boot/gnumach.gz resides on (hd0,0) and since  
there is no error message after typing
"kernel (hd0,0)/boot/gnumach.gz", I guess that GRUB finds the kernel.

> You should also check this link for suggestions too:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/1999/07/msg00069.html
> http://www.hurd.in/bin/view/Hurd/HurdOnVMware
> http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install

Thank you for these links, I noticed, that other people use a GRUB  
floppy image while I use
a full featured (multi language) GRUB CD image. Could it be possible  
that the version of
GRUB I use is missing something and therefore is unable to boot Hurd?

> Some other notes:
> The First time you run hurd after installing use the '-s' option ->  
> run  in single user mode
> kernel (hd0,0)/boot/gnumach.gz root=device:hd2s1 -s
> So you can run all the intall stuff
I already tried the -s switch, but I think it should not have  
anything to to with the bootstrapping problem I
currently have.

> FYI I'm just getting back into playing with the Hurd so let me know  
> if this works out for you.
Not yet. :(

MfG
Michael
> On 12/25/06, Michael Gruetzner <michael_gruetzner@gmx.de> wrote: Hi,
>
> I am experiencing some bootstrapping problems with the Hurd, I try to
> boot
> it inside Virtual PC on a Mac. After preparing a root volume (ext2fs,
> 800Mb)
> I try to boot the kernel with GRUB (I use a GRUB image from http://
> supergrub.forjamari.linex.org/).
> These are the grub commands I type:
>
> grub> kernel (hd0,0)/boot/gnumach.gz root=device:hd0s1  (the root
> filesystem is /dev/hda1 under linux)
> grub> module (hd0,0)/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)
>
> grub> module (hd0,0)/lib/ld.so.1 /hurd/exec $(exec-task=task-create)
> grub> boot
>
> After typing "boot" the system hangs and reboots after a while. I am
> quite lost at this point. Is there
> something I did wrong? How can I debug this?
>
> Thank you in advance for your help.
>
> Merry Christmas to all of you :)
>
> MfG
> Michael
>
>
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