Creating working qemu image

[Allan McRae]

Hi,

Slightly (or a lot...) off-topic, but I am having difficulty creating a 
working QEMU image.  I know my cross compiled Hurd install works, 
because if I take the Debian Hurd QEMU image and delete all the files 
and copy mine over, I can boot to a working shell.

I create the image using:
   # create image
   qemu-img create -f raw hurd.img 1GB

   # format the disk
   losetup /dev/loop0 hurd.img
   fdisk /dev/loop0   #(single partition, entire image, bootable)
   losetup -d /dev/loop0

   # make filesystem
   # partition should start at sector 63. Check with fdisk -ul hurd.img
   losetup -o 32256 /dev/loop0 hurd.img
   mkfs.ext2 -b 4096 -I 128 -o hurd -F /dev/loop0

and then mount and copy over my cross-built system.  During boot I error 
such as:

start /hurd/ext2fs.static: ext2fs: device:hd0s1: panic: 
get_hypermetadata: disk
size (1069254144 bytes) too small; superblock says we need 1073709056

There are a couple of bugs that seem vaguely related (17130 and 19765) 
but i do not think this is the same issue given using another image 
works fine.

Any help is appreciated.   This is my last step to creating a booting 
system from scratch.

Thanks,
Allan