Re: Hurd refuses to boot

[Christophe MOUILLERON]

Patrick Stetter wrote:
> I used crosshurd to set up hurd on my machine.  Since the mirrors
> crosshurd used were down I downloaded a base hurd system from here
> http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian/base/ as specified by
> http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install.  I extracted it and set
> up grub to boot from it with these commands:
>
> title GNU Hurd - Single User
> root (hd1,6)
> kernel /boot/gnumach.gz root=device:hd1s0 -s
> module /hurd/ext2fs.static --readonly                  \
> --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)
>
> The boot looks promising at first, but hangs with the line ed:
> /lib/ld.so.1 /hurd/exec.
>
> [...]
>   
Hi,

I ran into the same problem a couple of weeks ago. It appeared that the 
problem was in grub's menu.lst. In fact, there were a space just after 
one of the '\' in the first module block. Try to put this block in a 
single line, so as to avoid '\'.

Christophe.