> i'm trying to install the gnu-19990104.tar.gz tarball. I followed all > the orders i could find, but it seems that the /boot/gnumach kernel > cannot detect my ncr53c8xx adapter. > > Linux 2.0.36 dmesg looks like that: > > ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 10, function 0 > ncr53c8xx: 53c810 detected > ncr53c810-0: rev=0x02, base=0xe1800000, io_port=0x6100, irq=11 > ncr53c810-0: ID 7, Fast-10, Parity Checking > ncr53c810-0: restart (scsi reset). > scsi0 : ncr53c8xx - revision 3.1c > > The ncr bios is part of my motherboard, the pci card is dumb. > > I installed the hurd on sda1 (sda2 is reserved for swap). > > icmp:~ # mount > /dev/hda6 on / type ext2 (rw) > /dev/hda8 on /usr type ext2 (rw) > /dev/sdb1 on /home type ext2 (rw) > /dev/sda1 on /hurd type ext2 (rw) > /dev/hda1 on /c type vfat (rw) > /dev/hda5 on /d type vfat (rw) > > I can't spare a IDE partition right now. I use the following grub > (0.5) commands to boot the gnu image: > > root=(hd1,0) > kernel=/boot/gnumach root=/dev/sd1s1 -s
that should be sd0s1. > module=/boot/serverboot > boot > ps: /etc/fstab contains one line: "/dev/sd1s1 / ext2 rw 1 1" Is this > correct or needed? Yes,yes Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
