Re: settrans fails to set up pipes (crosshurd installation)

Hello,

maxbrick, le ven. 03 juil. 2026 21:24:07 +0000, a ecrit:
> Samuel, 2026 Jul 02, 02:37 GMT-0400:
> > The problem is not ext2 vs ext4, but using -o hurd
> 
> I reformatted (then reinstalled on) the partition, this time being
> sure not to omit the -o hurd argument, and piping now works!
> I'm getting a variety of other errors from the install
> script

Some errors are expected: since this is bootstrapping a new system, the
circular dependencies are initially not achieved. The question is
whether the native-install command fails in the end or not.

> > People tend to write new documentation, which then tends
> > to be only half-correct.
> 
> I followed what I assume to be an official documentation here:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/running/debian/CrossInstall.html
> 
> The only adjustment I made from those instructions are changing
> the root device in the grub options to "device:sd0s9" (which took
> lots of trial and error and reading different hurd and grub documentations
> and output from my own boot attempts over the course of a few weeks)

Ah, it was missing the noahci option to indeed get wd0, not sd0. I have
now added it.

Samuel