On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 11:05:37PM -0500, Michael Lankton wrote:
> Why is it that linux requires LILO and the Hurd requires GRUB to boot?
Linux can be booted with LILO, GRUB, loadlin.exe, syslinux.sys, NT's boot
manager, OS/2's boot manager, PartitionMagic and pretty much anything else.
I use loa
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 07:51:58AM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> I recommend first installing a Debian GNU/Linux system -- in fact, you'll
> *have* to install at least the base system of some Linux distribution in order
> to bootstrap the Hurd.
Or BSD.
> (unless the boot disks are ready? Marc
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 08:00:00AM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> I was just looking at the installation instructions
> (http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install) and noticed that it appears
> that
> the installation instructions weren't updated after Marcus included the patch
> for automat
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 03:45:28PM -0700, Nick Jennings wrote:
>
> Hey, thanks for the help. Im now able to actualy start the booting of the
> Hurd. this is what I entered into GRUB:
>
> root=(hd0,4)
> kernel=/boot/gnumach.gz root=hd0s4
Either one is incorrect.
GRUB counts partition from 0, GNU
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 11:35:19AM +0200, P. van Tilburg wrote:
> first the disk, that went wrong:
>
> source(6):/hurd# dd if=~paul/download/hurd/grub-boot.image of=/dev/fd0 bs=512
> Add: /dev/fd0: No space left on device
> 1441+0 records in
> 1440+0 records out
What's this "grub-boot.image" thin
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 11:05:37PM -0500, Michael Lankton wrote:
> Why is it that linux requires LILO and the Hurd requires GRUB to boot?
Linux doesn't require LILO.
Hurd dos not require Grub, but more specifically a boot loader that supports
the mulitboot standard.
The trick is that Grub can l
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 09:00:53PM -0400, Michael Bacarella wrote:
> >
> > I noticed that the initial login prompt provides a wee bit more power than
> > i'd like. I suppose I can get around that once I have the time.
>
> The "login prompt" is the
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 09:00:53PM -0400, Michael Bacarella wrote:
>
> I noticed that the initial login prompt provides a wee bit more power than
> i'd like. I suppose I can get around that once I have the time.
The "login prompt" is the shell of the login user. You change this by setting
anothe
Hey,
I was trying to get Hurd running (following the manual)
first the disk, that went wrong:
source(6):/hurd# dd if=~paul/download/hurd/grub-boot.image of=/dev/fd0 bs=512
Add: /dev/fd0: No space left on device
1441+0 records in
1440+0 records out
I even tried other mirrors, but they are all t
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: your mail
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 11:05:52 +0200 (CEST)
> -->I gunzipped the serverboot and everything was OK!
> -->
> -->The Hurd is Running!
> no problem, but shouldnt it be fixed in documentation ?
You need not to gunzip serverboot, as GRUB can decompres
-->Thanks,
-->
-->I gunzipped the serverboot and everything was OK!
-->
-->The Hurd is Running!
no problem, but shouldnt it be fixed in documentation ?
Piotr Wachowiak
Thanks,
I gunzipped the serverboot and everything was OK!
The Hurd is Running!
Ittzés Péter
Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The source for the Debian packages can be downloaded with the
> command 'apt-get source hurd' and 'apt-get source gnumach' once you
> have a system up. However, the latest development sources are
> probably in CVS (a revision control system) and I don'
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