On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 02:40:53PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 08:52:31PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > > right now, cross-debootstrapping a hurd-i386 system (from i386, e.g.) > > fails (silently) in first stage after extracting packages. > > > > This is because debootstrap runs setup_devices in first stage, and we > > cannot setup the Hurd translators at this point when running > > GNU/Linux because the necessary tools and kernel support is not > > available[1]. > > > > Would it be possible to move the setup_devices call to second stage, at > > least when ARCH=hurd-i386? I assume setting up the devices is required > > for Linux arches when using --foreign, so that a boot into the new > > system will have a /dev tree and might fail otherwise. > > > > We modified the hurd package so that it can boot fine after just being > > unpacked without the need for having translators/devices setup, i.e. the > > debootstrap --foreign case. > > > > I've attached a patch which works for my case, though it might not be > > the most elegant solution. > > Ping. Any news on this?
Heeeellllooooo? I will NMU debootstrap in the next days with the proposed patch if I don't hear anything back. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100219102327.ge10...@nighthawk.chemicalconnection.dyndns.org
