Re: yet more newbie questions

[B. Douglas Hilton]

Hi, from the looks of it, you have hda6 set to
be your hurd root disk. In grub grok this would
probably be (hd0,5)

(hd0) = whole disk hda
(hd0,0) -> hda1
etc.

It takes a while to get used to grub but I rely
on it these days. Also when you eventually
create your menu.lst it will give you a nice
menu that you can use arrow keys to select
your boot options.

Here's what I think you'd likely do, assuming you
still have the serverboot.gz module.

grub> root (hd0,5)
grub> kernel /boot/gnumach.gz -s root=hd1s6
grub> module /boot/serverboot.gz
grub> boot

Be sure to use Debian's hurd installation scheme
as it is years newer than the stuff on GNU's site.

Check here: http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install

Have fun!

- Doug


Kenneth Stailey wrote:

> What am I doing wrong?
>
> GRUB says that it can't find /boot/gnumach.gz but it's there.
>
> Tried both 0.91 and 0.92 of GRUB from floppy.  Starts up fine but
>
> grub> find /boot/gnumach.gz
>
> gets an "error 15 - file not found"
>
> Other system details:
>
> ASUS TUSI-M motherboard with SiS 630 chipset.
> Linux/i386 2.4.17-bf2.4 on Debian "woody" test release as of a couple days ago.
> The Hurd from ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/contrib/marcus/gnu-20011016.tar.gz
>
> # fdisk -l
> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1245 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
>   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *         1       125    999904+  83  Linux
> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
>     phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63)
> /dev/hda2           125       249    999936   63  GNU HURD or SysV
> Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
>     phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63)
> /dev/hda3           249       312    499968   82  Linux swap
> Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary:
>     phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63)
> /dev/hda4           312      1246   7506576    5  Extended
> Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary:
>     phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63)
> /dev/hda5           312       436    999904+  63  GNU HURD or SysV
> /dev/hda6           436      1246   6506608+  83  Linux
>
> # mount
> /dev/hda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
> proc on /proc type proc (rw)
> devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
> /dev/hda6 on /usr type ext3 (rw)
> /dev/hda2 on /gnu type ext2 (rw)
>
> # ls -CFs /gnu
> total 104
>   4 bin/            4 home/           4 man/                4 src/
>   4 boot/           4 hurd/           4 mnt/                4 tmp/
>   4 dev/            4 include/        8 native-install*     0 usr@
>   4 doc/            4 info/           4 root/               4 var/
>   8 dpkg-hurd*     4 lib/             4 sbin/
>   4 etc/            4 libexec/        4 servers/
>   4 games/          4 lost+found/     4 share/