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<braunr> safer
<braunr> perhaps more powerful too, but that entirely depends on the
features you want inside
+
+
+# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-10-04
+
+ <braunr> hm, looks like we broke subhurds again
+ <braunr> freezes after starting exec
+ <teythoon> o_O
+ <braunr> looks like some translator refuses to start
+ <braunr> teythoon: we need better error reporting first :)
+
+[[open_issues/subhurd_error_messages]].
+
+ <braunr> and better visibility in general
+ <braunr> teythoon: it may be that the subhurd i'm using is a bit od
+ <braunr> old
+ <braunr> one weird thing about subhurds is that they actually use the
+ ext2fs and linker from the host
+ <braunr> so it's better if the subhurd and the host uses the same bootstrap
+ protocol :)
+ <teythoon> braunr: isn't boot --boot-root=DIR there to specify which root
+ translator and linker to use?
+ <braunr> teythoon: yes but you don't want your root file system mounted
+ from the host when starting your subhurd
+ <teythoon> you can mount it r/o just fine, no?
+ <braunr> ideally, we'd have a userspace version of grub reading the files
+ from the disk, as it's done when booting
+ <braunr> hm
+ <braunr> right
+
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-10-07
+
+ <teythoon> braunr: btw, did you straighten out your subhurd issue?
+ <braunr> teythoon: no i haven't