Re: boot image

[Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>]

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" thing?

I suggest you get the latest GRUB (0.5.92 at least), and put stage1 and
stage2 on an empty disk.

dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1

> but after doing all the installing and booting, the mach kernel says
> after a while:
> 
> PANIC: Cannot load user-bootstrap image: error code 6000
> 
> where can I find the error codes? Does the fact that I haven't written
> the bootdisk correctly relate to the error in the user-bootstrap?

Maybe you are having an old GRUB which doesn't grok compressed serverboot
files?

Marcus

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