On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 02:03:46AM +0200, Michael Drueing wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just wanted to install HURD on my spare 340Mb Disk (IDE) and I now have a little
> (well, it's not that little...) problem:
> I ran cross-install from my linux-system and it installed everything without any
> problems. I quickly browsed the directories created and eveything looked OK. So I
> fired up my grub boot disk and tried to load hurd. But after typing
> "kernel=/boot/gnumach.gz root=hd2s1 -s" I got a "file not found". I quickly
> checked this by doing a "kernel=/" followed by a <tab>, and all directories looked
> crippled
Update your GRUB to version 0.5.94, please.
> (i.e. "boot" had two strange ascii-characters behind it etc.) Only a few
> directories were uncrippled, but inside them were again crippled dirs. I then
> checked this with a little program for Windows (ext2fs) and it, too showed the
> strange directory names.
You are using a new linux kernel, and a new filesystem created with the
sparse superblocks feature. Neither old GRUB and Hurd versions, nor your
Windows tool support it, hence the failure (btw, older linux kernels don't
support it, too).
> But in Linux everything looks (and works) OK, so I
> wondered if the ext2-filesystem may have undergone some dramatic change lately??
Your guess is 100% correct.
> The last thing I tried was copying /boot/gnumach.gz and /boot/serverboot.gz to my
> dos-disk (FAT16) and to load them from there. The first try didn't succeed because
> the file serverboot.gz was compressed (I got some errorcode 8000 - or was it 6000
> - after hurd booted -> kernel panic), so I uncompressed it and tried again. This
> time I got no error but the system locked up quietly.
Please try a later GRUB first, and then we come back if the problem remains.
Remember to tell us what Hurd version you are using.
Thanks,
Marcus
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