On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 02:36:53PM -0500, Neal H Walfield wrote: > Root device ``E!!' does not exist! > Root device name? [`E!!] foo > Server boot script? [/dev/foo/boot/servers.boot] > Root device `foo' does not exist! > Root device name? [foo] hd0s1 > Server boot script? [/dev/hd0s1/boot/servers.boot] foo > no device name > Can't open server boot script foo: No such file or directory > Server boot script? [foo] /dev/hd0s1/foo > > Then it freezes. > > Why is this? It should give me another `Can't open server boot script' but > it doesn't, UNLESS the HURD can't read the partition!
Terrible. I am scared :) > Why couldn't the HURD read my ext2 partition? Well, for the same reason that > GRUB 0.5.93 couldn't: I am using the latest ext2 tools under Linux and this > caused your boot disk (the one on alpha.gnu.org) with Grub 0.5.93 to not be > able to read the partition properly. Oh well. Two things: One, I will update the grub boot floppy. Second, can you double check by downgrading to an older version of e2fsprogs and try from scratch? > It would appear that the HURD or more exactly: serverboot is having the same > problem: it cannot handle the newest ext2 format and is therefore silently > dying upon accessing trying to access the partition! Note that it is NOT > ext2fs.static that is causing the problem here as we never actually get that > far. If that's the case Roland has something to work on over next weekend :) Thanks! Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org for public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
