I was about the give up and go to bed (after my second afternoon & evening trying to get the Hurd up and running) when I finally got my HURD to boot!
I recommend that you add the explicit commands to step 6 as follows: > 6) Try booting from the floppy again, this time specifying your Hurd > partition as the Mach root partition. The Hurd will start and you > should get a shell prompt. If you don't, then diagnose the problem, > and try again. command> kernel=/boot/gnumach.gz root=hd0s0 command> module=/boot/serverboot.gz command> boot Maybe a little bit more verbage would be helpful. I spent several hours conviced that the "root=" COMMAND in grub was what I needed to change the root partition. A detailed examination of the grub manual convince me otherwise. I then got derailed trying to supply the "correct answer" to the "Server boot script? [%s] " question from bootstrap.c... I made this entire little sidetrip into the source code from the observation that gnumach.gz defaults to a root name of "/dev/hda0"--which doesn't seem to fit anybody's idea of a disk naming convention... Sigh. -- La Monte H.P. Yarroll Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you remember nothing else: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NIC Handle: LY GPL - "Just give source a chance."
