Re: Bootstraping the Hurd

[Thomas Schwinge]

[Cced to <bug-hurd@gnu.org>.  Perhaps some there has an idea?]


Hello!

On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 03:05:27PM +0100, Michael Gruetzner wrote:
> On 12/25/06, Michael Gruetzner <michael_gruetzner@gmx.de> wrote: Hi,
> >
> >I am experiencing some bootstrapping problems with the Hurd, I try to
> >boot
> >it inside Virtual PC on a Mac.

> >After typing "boot" the system hangs and reboots after a while.

Yes, it seems the problem you have is very likely an incompatibility
between the emulated hardware and the GNU Mach kernel.  Unfortunately
neither me nor someone I know has the hardware and software you have, so
I can't have a look myself.


> a full featured (multi language) GRUB CD image. Could it be possible  
> that the version of
> GRUB I use is missing something and therefore is unable to boot Hurd?

No.  Every moderately recent version of GRUB should be able to boot the
system.


Regards,
 Thomas

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