Re: Hurd installation trouble

[Michael Banck]

Hi,

On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 10:47:42AM +0200, Michael Ablassmeier wrote:

> I used a old Debian Net Install CDROM to untar the gnu-latest.tar.gz on
> my first Partition (/dev/hda1) which i formated with `mke2fs /dev/hda1`.
> Partition size is 1.5 GB. I tried also to format the Partition with
> `mke2fs -o hurd /dev/hda1` but if i do so, grub can't read this Disk.
> 
> All nice, Hurd booted, shell was there.
> Then i did an `export TERM=mach` and fired up the "native-install"
> script, and got alot amount of errors.
> Any hints what i did wrong ?

That's because you didn't do '-o hurd'. AFAIK that's really essential -
you can't install Debian GNU/Hurd without it.

I can't help you with the underlying Grub issue though, never had a
problem with it, sorry.


Michael