Hi, 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? Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
