Andreas Kahari wrote: > Hi all > > I installed GNU/Hurd on a left over PC at work a while ago and I had > no problems whatsoever! The only thing I'm worrying about is the > following warning/error message when I try to access a directory which > is a link to another partition: > > hurd:~# cd /linux > hd04: bad access: block=28, count=2, blockend=30, nr_sects > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:04, sector 28 Welcome to the Hurd. Do not worry about this message. Your hda4 is just the holding partition for hda5 onwards. PCs can only have four primary partitions :-) This message is harmless. > > > On the GNU/Linux side my partitions are: > > hda1: /boot > hda2: / > hda3: /var > hda5: /usr > hda6: swap > hda7: swap > > hdc1: /gnu > hdc2: swap > > I mounted / from hda2 to the Hurd using > > settrans -c /linux /hurd/ext2fs /dev/hd0s2 > Make this a permanent mount, and add some swap too. > > > There seems to be no other error or side effects. I can view all files > in /linux from the Hurd without problems. hda2 is 1Gb (this is my > problem?) and there is no hda4. Any partition for the Hurd must be 1Gb or less. > > > Also, is someone working on The GNU Hurd Reference Manual? ...or is it > too much development going on at the moment? There is a PostScript manual available; but it is better to use these sites: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/ http://www.gnu.org/software/devel.html http://www.gnu.org/manual/cvs-1.9/cvs.html http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/learning-more-about-hurd.html http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/mach/public/www/doc/publications.html http://kt.linuxcare.com/KC/debian-hurd/index.html http://www.tamacom.com/tour/hurd/index.html http://www.pick.ucam.org/~mcv21/hurd.html http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-doc-translator http://www.urbanophile.com/arenn/hacking/hurd/hurd-hardware.html http://hurd.sourceforge.net/ > Chris > > > /A > > -- > Andreas Kähäri /* */ > Dept. of Info. Tech. /* Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. */ > Uppsala University /* -- Sigmund Freud */ > Sweden /* */
