Re: My failure to install Hurd on Debian GNU/Linux kvm

[Samuel Thibault]

Thomas Schmitt, le Sat 20 Aug 2011 15:11:24 +0200, a écrit :
> This menu has an option to boot from the first disk.
> I did, but this only yields a GRUB prompt.

Ah, that's a known bug with GRUB which has been fixed since then.

> Very strangely, next day, after rebooting the hosting GNU/Linux, i get from
>   $ kvm -m 512 -net nic,model=ne2k_pci -net user -hda hurd-install.qemu 
> -no-kvirqchip
>   kvm: invalid option -- '-no-kvirqchip'

There's a missing m here.

> The install process gave me no opportunity to enter the prescibed
> network paramters. (IP address: 10.0.2.15 , ...)
> Is this a bad sign ?

It's simply because dhcp is now supported and used by default.

Samuel