sigbj-st <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : > What I mean to say here is that last year I tried to install the 20.8.02 tar > ball from ftp://alpha.gnu.org . I assume that there has not been any change in > the MBrinkm tar.gz since august 2002.Otherwise I would assume that the date > would have changed so that I would have noticed that. > > Last year I reported that the hurd boot froze at a certain stage and kernel > panic. I tried contrib/marcus on the same machine for fun to-day (but I use > the K4-Debian now).The same-procedure-as-last-year happened,but when I edited > the first modul-line /hurd/ext2fs.static to erase the "--readonly" switch, the > Hurd continued past the hang to single-user runlevel as it should. From here I > could continue the regular ./native-install. > > Upon a second boot Hurd this time actually accepted "--readonly" on that > modular line in grub,and I ran the ./native-install a second time as > requested. > > Now, on third boot as multiuser the message was that "could not fsck, could > not mount readonly", or something like that,so I had to add --readonly on the > ext2fs.static module command line. Does this sound weard to you?
This is a bug that was fixed around that time. Upgrading will fix this problem. > Has the grub boot-setup for Hurd changed as to the -s option in the kernel > commandline and --readonly option in the ext2fs.static commandline? No. "-s" is only required for single used mode (I have never used single user mode, it seems not really required :)). --readonly is a workaround for this bug. -- Marco _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd