Re: trouble booting hurd

2002-04-16 Thread Neal H Walfield
> > > While with serverboot I have no problems. > > > > > > What could be the reason? > > > > The most likely reason is getting the kernel line > > wrong. > > No actually I have also got the same problem when give > module command 2 times...its a kernel panic.. > > but with serverboot.gz i

Re: trouble booting hurd

2002-04-16 Thread arun v
> > While with serverboot I have no problems. > > > > What could be the reason? > > The most likely reason is getting the kernel line > wrong. No actually I have also got the same problem when give module command 2 times...its a kernel panic.. but with serverboot.gz its booting well. >

Re: trouble booting hurd

2002-04-16 Thread Neal H Walfield
For those interested: > Ah, cool. I didn't know about the one in Paris, http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/hurdfr-paris/ > and I guess reports > of the death of the HUG in Boston were exagerated. =) http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/boston-hurd/ But, yes, it could use some some resuscitation. _

Re: trouble booting hurd

2002-04-16 Thread Neal H Walfield
> While with serverboot I have no problems. > > What could be the reason? The most likely reason is getting the kernel line wrong. ___ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd

Re: trouble booting hurd

2002-04-16 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 12:18:42AM -0400, Neal H Walfield wrote: > > THUS, the Toronto-(area) (GNU/)Hurd Users Group is, I beleive, the (THUG, BTW.. I should learn to type... *g*) > > only funcitoning HUG in the world. We'll be doing our best to > > make our presence known. =) > Ahem! There

Re: trouble booting hurd

2002-04-16 Thread Kenneth Stailey
--- Jeff Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 10:19:08PM -0400, B. Douglas Hilton wrote: > > > So Jim, how far is the University of Waterloo from York University? > > Hope you can make it to the Debconf 2 this year in Toronto. I'm > > looking forward to it. It would be nic

Re: trouble booting hurd

2002-04-16 Thread Yuri Leikind
On 15 Apr 2002 14:05:23 -0400 Neal H Walfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What should we use instead of serverboot.gz? > > > > gnumach.gz, i hope > > No. ext2fs.static and exec. You probably mean this: module /hurd/ext2fs.static --multiboot-command-line=${kernel-command-line}

Re: trouble booting hurd

2002-04-15 Thread Neal H Walfield
> > So Jim, how far is the University of Waterloo from York University? > > Hope you can make it to the Debconf 2 this year in Toronto. I'm > > looking forward to it. It would be nice to have a strong Hurder > > presence. > > THUS, the Toronto-(area) (GNU/)Hurd Users Group is, I beleive, the > o

Re: trouble booting hurd

2002-04-15 Thread James Morrison
--- "B. Douglas Hilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, now as I think and the old neurons spark back to > life, it wasn't a type, but rather a problem with oskit-mach. > > Anyways, the "old" method of booting was something like: > > grub> root (hd1,1) > grub> kernel (hd1,1)/boot/gnumach

Re: trouble booting hurd

2002-04-15 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 10:19:08PM -0400, B. Douglas Hilton wrote: > So Jim, how far is the University of Waterloo from York University? > Hope you can make it to the Debconf 2 this year in Toronto. I'm > looking forward to it. It would be nice to have a strong Hurder > presence. THUS, the Toro

Re: trouble booting hurd

2002-04-15 Thread B. Douglas Hilton
Actually, now as I think and the old neurons spark back to life, it wasn't a type, but rather a problem with oskit-mach. Anyways, the "old" method of booting was something like: grub> root (hd1,1) grub> kernel (hd1,1)/boot/gnumach.gz -- root=hd0s1 grub> module (hd1,1)/boot/serverboot.gz grub> bo

Re: trouble booting hurd

2002-04-15 Thread James Morrison
--- "B. Douglas Hilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Argh... that treacherous grub command line to replace serverboot.gz, > that thing caused me a lot of oskit-mach recompiles for nothing. > > Arun, If you check back to January in the debian-hurd list you > will see a whole string of messages abo

Re: trouble booting hurd

2002-04-15 Thread B. Douglas Hilton
Argh... that treacherous grub command line to replace serverboot.gz, that thing caused me a lot of oskit-mach recompiles for nothing. Arun, If you check back to January in the debian-hurd list you will see a whole string of messages about this, apparently one of the online web pages has typos and

Re: trouble booting hurd

2002-04-15 Thread Neal H Walfield
> > What should we use instead of serverboot.gz? > > gnumach.gz, i hope No. ext2fs.static and exec. ___ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd

Re: trouble booting hurd

2002-04-15 Thread Michal Medvecký
> What should we use instead of serverboot.gz? gnumach.gz, i hope ___ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd

Re: trouble booting hurd

2002-04-15 Thread Neal H Walfield
> > > This will do > > > > serverboot is being phased out. Do not use it. > > What should we use instead of serverboot.gz? It is all described in the installation manual which you can find by going to http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd. ___ Help-hurd

Re: trouble booting hurd

2002-04-15 Thread arun v
> > This will do > > serverboot is being phased out. Do not use it. What should we use instead of serverboot.gz? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/

Re: trouble booting hurd

2002-04-14 Thread Neal H Walfield
> grub> root(hd0,5) > > grub> kernel /boot/gnumach.gz device=/dev/hd0s6 > > grub> module /boot/serverboot.gz > > grub> boot > > > This will do serverboot is being phased out. Do not use it. ___ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail

Re: trouble booting hurd

2002-04-14 Thread arun v
grub> root(hd0,5) grub> kernel /boot/gnumach.gz device=/dev/hd0s6 grub> module /boot/serverboot.gz grub> boot This will do Thanks, Arun > When the command line appeared, i've typed: > find /boot/gnumach.gz > > it said: file not found. > > so i tried to set root device manually: > root (h

Re: trouble booting hurd

2002-04-14 Thread Fabian Sturm
If i only had this mail 5 minutes earlier. Im pretty sure you got hda7 when you entered root (hd0,6) or it wouldn't have said "ok, device 0x83" On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 12:57:54AM +0200, Michal Medveck? wrote: > > /dev/hda5 1025 1090530113+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda6 1091

Re: trouble booting hurd

2002-04-14 Thread Fabian Sturm
Hallo, On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 12:19:49AM +0200, Michal Medveck? wrote: > > > so i tried to set root device manually: > root (hd0,6) (/dev/hda6 under linux) Hmm i dont have the docu here and i always forget how the numbering was, but i thought hda6 on linux is (hd0,5) in grub? Another possibi

Re: trouble booting hurd

2002-04-14 Thread Neal H Walfield
> /dev/hda6 1091 1613 4200966 63 GNU HURD or SysV You need to use type 83. ___ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd

Re: trouble booting hurd

2002-04-14 Thread Michal Medvecký
> Well, without some more details, it is very difficult to give you some > more help. OK. I have 40gb ide barracuda on ata-66. Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4865 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 *

Re: trouble booting hurd

2002-04-14 Thread Neal H Walfield
> > Then grub is having some kind of problem reading your partition > > table/partition. > > Well, that word 'some' is the reason i'm mailing here. Well, without some more details, it is very difficult to give you some more help. ___ Help-hurd mailing

Re: trouble booting hurd

2002-04-14 Thread Michal Medvecký
> Then grub is having some kind of problem reading your partition > table/partition. Well, that word 'some' is the reason i'm mailing here. ___ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd

Re: trouble booting hurd

2002-04-14 Thread Michal Medvecký
> Well, is /boot/gnumach.gz under /dev/hda6? sure: slovakia:/home/misko# mount /dev/hda6 on /gnu type ext2 (rw) slovakia:/home/misko# ls -l /gnu/boot/gnumach.gz -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 712147 øíj 13 2001 /gnu/boot/gnumach.gz ___ Help

Re: trouble booting hurd

2002-04-14 Thread Neal H Walfield
Then grub is having some kind of problem reading your partition table/partition. ___ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd

Re: trouble booting hurd

2002-04-14 Thread Neal H Walfield
> Of course, i have untgz-ed gnu-latest.tar.gz into the root of my > /dev/hda6. Well, is /boot/gnumach.gz under /dev/hda6? ___ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd

trouble booting hurd

2002-04-14 Thread Michal Medvecký
Hello, I have tried to boot hurd using gnu grub 0.91 (grub-0.91-i386-pc.ext2fs image), but it did not work. When the command line appeared, i've typed: find /boot/gnumach.gz it said: file not found. so i tried to set root device manually: root (hd0,6) (/dev/hda6 under linux) it said ok, devic