Re: cannot boot subhurd

2010-01-03 Thread Da Zheng
Hi, On 10-1-3 下午11:48, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > Yes: > > Of course, this problem will go away / shift from the kernel into > user-space processes as soon as we have disk I/O completely handled in > user space. > > Which, by the

Re: cannot boot subhurd

2010-01-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thomas Schwinge, le Sun 03 Jan 2010 16:48:00 +0100, a écrit : > We will need it as soon as we switch from the Mach disk device > handling to something more modern (DDE). It can also be useful for the Xen case, as I haven't plugged the xen device drivers to any partition support. Samuel

Re: cannot boot subhurd

2010-01-03 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 10:59:04PM +0800, Da Zheng wrote: > On 10-1-3 下午9:00, Samuel Thibault wrote: > >> No, I didn't. The new partition isn't in the disk where Hurd runs. Do I > >> still > >> need to restart the kernel? > > > > Yes, fdisk says so: “WARNING: Re-reading the partition tabl

Re: cannot boot subhurd

2010-01-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Da Zheng, le Sun 03 Jan 2010 22:59:04 +0800, a écrit : > On 10-1-3 下午9:00, Samuel Thibault wrote: > >> No, I didn't. The new partition isn't in the disk where Hurd runs. Do I > >> still > >> need to restart the kernel? > > > > Yes, fdisk says so: “WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed >

Re: cannot boot subhurd

2010-01-03 Thread Da Zheng
Hi, On 10-1-3 下午9:00, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> No, I didn't. The new partition isn't in the disk where Hurd runs. Do I still >> need to restart the kernel? > > Yes, fdisk says so: “WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed > with error 1073741902: Function not implemented. The kernel still

Re: cannot boot subhurd

2010-01-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Da Zheng, le Sun 03 Jan 2010 12:37:52 +0800, a écrit : > On 10-1-3 上午3:40, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Da Zheng, le Sat 02 Jan 2010 22:46:20 +0800, a écrit : > >> Yes, I did "mke2fs /dev/hd1". After partitioning, I tried to create hd1s1 > >> device > >> file with MAKEDEV, but got the error "Unknown

Re: cannot boot subhurd

2010-01-02 Thread Da Zheng
On 10-1-3 上午3:40, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Da Zheng, le Sat 02 Jan 2010 22:46:20 +0800, a écrit : >> Yes, I did "mke2fs /dev/hd1". After partitioning, I tried to create hd1s1 >> device >> file with MAKEDEV, but got the error "Unknown code P 6 while trying to >> determine >> filesystem size" after

Re: cannot boot subhurd

2010-01-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Da Zheng, le Sat 02 Jan 2010 22:46:20 +0800, a écrit : > Yes, I did "mke2fs /dev/hd1". After partitioning, I tried to create hd1s1 > device > file with MAKEDEV, but got the error "Unknown code P 6 while trying to > determine > filesystem size" after I ran "mke2fs /dev/hd1s1". Did you restart the

Re: cannot boot subhurd

2010-01-02 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 10:46:20PM +0800, Da Zheng wrote: > I tried crosshurd. It doesn't work. Anyone maintains crosshurd? Yes. Michael

Re: cannot boot subhurd

2010-01-02 Thread Da Zheng
Hi, On 10-1-2 下午3:06, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > But then you still have a boot sector and probably a few empty sectors > before the start of the actual partition -- I don't see how ext2fs could > ever have mounted this... > > Unless you actually did "mke2fs /dev/hd1" after partitioning --

Re: cannot boot subhurd

2010-01-02 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 12:54:33PM +0800, Da Zheng wrote: > On 09-12-31 ??11:04, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > >> But it always worked before. I can also mount /dev/hd1 to my file > >> system. 'settrans -a subhurd /hurd/ext2fs /dev/hd1' works on my > >> system. > > > > Have you put a

Re: cannot boot subhurd

2010-01-01 Thread Da Zheng
Hi, On 09-12-31 上午11:04, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: >> But it always worked before. I can also mount /dev/hd1 to my file >> system. 'settrans -a subhurd /hurd/ext2fs /dev/hd1' works on my >> system. > > Have you put a filesystem on /dev/hd1 without partitioning it? That's > certainly unusual.

Re: cannot boot subhurd

2010-01-01 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 05:59:32PM +0800, Da Zheng wrote: > On 09-12-29 ??5:42, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:45:50PM +0800, Da Zheng wrote: > >> #boot servers.boot /dev/hd1 > > > > Err... /dev/hd1? That's almost certainly wrong. You want to boot > > from

Re: cannot boot subhurd

2009-12-29 Thread Da Zheng
On 09-12-29 下午5:42, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:45:50PM +0800, Da Zheng wrote: > >> I tried to boot subhurd but no matter how I try it, it just fails to >> boot. > >> #boot servers.boot /dev/hd1 > > Err... /dev/hd1? That's almost certainly wrong. You want

Re: cannot boot subhurd

2009-12-29 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:45:50PM +0800, Da Zheng wrote: > I tried to boot subhurd but no matter how I try it, it just fails to > boot. > #boot servers.boot /dev/hd1 Err... /dev/hd1? That's almost certainly wrong. You want to boot from a partition, not from a drive... (I guess some kind o