Re: HURD wont start

[Samuel Thibault]

Just adding some comments about our previous mail exchange

Jakub Daniel, le Thu 01 May 2008 16:27:01 +0200, a écrit :
> start /hurd/ext2fs.static: /hurd/ext2fs.static: device:sd0s1: No such
> device or address

Jakub put sd0 here because linux recognize the disk as sda.

> so i changed the grub menu.lst and then i got
> 
> start /hurd/ext2fs.static: /hurd/ext2fs.static: device:hd0s1: No such
> device or address

That should however have worked.

> i realized that the first partition would probably be 0
> so i changed it once more and now i get this:
> 
> ext2fs: device: hd0s0: panic: get_hypermetadata: cannot read
> Hypermetadata

This is no wonder to me: slices are numbered from zero, aren't they?

> any idea what i am doing wrong?

I think what is missing is to enable the BIOS' IDE legacy interface.
Does people have ideas of how that may be called?

Samuel