Hi,
I found that installing GnuHurd and configuring it with grub very painful.
After that I wrote a script to help people configure GRUB for gnu/Hurd
<See attached>
I hope it saves someone a lot of pain.
-=+Marcello Mathias Herreshoff
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# Programmer: Marcello Mathias Herreshoff
# Creation Date: Sun Mar 23 19:00:53 PST 2003
# Last Modified: Sun Mar 23 19:00:53 PST 2003
# Filename: mkhurd_grub_conf.pl
# Syntax: perl 5
# License: GPL
#
# Description: Ask for some info and spit out a piece of menu.lst for \
# booting GNU/Hurd
#
use strict;
my ($hd, $zi_hd, $sec, $zi_sec) = (0, 0, 0, 0);
#zi -> zero index
my $mach_location; #where is the .gz file
my $output;
#The actual program:
print "First let me ask you some questions about the disk HURD is on.\n";
print "Enter IDE(prim/sec):";
chomp($_ = <STDIN>);
if(/s/i){
print "Secondary.\n";
$zi_hd += 2;
}else{
print "Primary.\n";
}
print "Enter IDE(master/slave):";
chomp($_ = <STDIN>);
unless(/m/i){
print "Slave.\n";
$zi_hd += 1;
}else{
print "Master.\n";
}
$hd = $zi_hd+1;
#print "DEBUG hd = $hd\n";
print "Next let me ask you about the sector HURD is on.\n";
print "Do you like to count sectors starting at zero or one (0/1)?";
chomp($_ = <STDIN>);
if($_){ #one
print "Starting from one, what sector is HURD on:";
chomp($_ = <STDIN>);
$sec = +$_; #Important we numify!
print "Starting from one, sector $sec.\n";
$zi_sec = $sec-1;
}else{ #zero
print "Starting from zero, what sector is HURD on:";
chomp($_ = <STDIN>);
$zi_sec = +$_; #Important we numify!
print "Starting from zero, sector $zi_sec.\n";
$sec = $zi_sec+1;
}
print "Where is mach located on this disk [/boot/gnumach.gz]:";
chomp($_ = <STDIN>);
$mach_location = $_ || '/boot/gnumach.gz';
$output = <<EOT;
####################
#Automatically Generated by Hurd Grub configurator!
#
title GNU/Hurd
\troot (hd$zi_hd,$zi_sec)
\tkernel /boot/gnumach.gz root=device:hd${zi_hd}s$sec -s
\tmodule /hurd/ext2fs.static --multiboot-command-line=\${kernel-command-line}
--host-priv-port=\${host-port} --device-master-port=\${device-port}
--exec-server-task=\${exec-task} -T typed \${root} \$(task-create) \$(task-resume)
\tmodule /lib/ld.so.1 /hurd/exec \$(exec-task=task-create)
EOT
print "The output is:\n$output\n\n";
print "Would you like to append it to /boot/grub/menu.lst(y/n)?\n";
print "(Type n if you wish to save this elsewhere)\n>";
chomp($_ = <STDIN>);
if(/y/){
open(GRUBCONF, ">> /boot/grub/menu.lst");
print GRUBCONF $output;
close GRUBCONF;
print "Reboot to use GNU/Hurd\nHappy Hacking!\n"
}else{
print "Enter a place to save the configuration, or nothing to quit.\n";
print "Note: Appends if file already existent.\n>";
chomp($_ = <STDIN>);
exit unless($_);
open(OUT, ">>", $_);
print "Data written to $_.\n";
}
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