I recently tried installing the Hurd from the gnu-19990505.tar.gz file. My system is a PII/266 with 64MB of ram, Adaptec AIC7850 SCSI card, two scsi drives, with the Hurd partition located at sd1s6 on Hurd and sdb7 on Linux, which is within an Extended partition.
I successfully installed the files and began the boot process. Everything appeared to be loading okay until after it identifies my two scsi hard drives. Then it just hangs. If I hit any key I get a gnumach kernel panic and the system restarts within about a minute. I am not sure what to do. Redhat Linux has worked on my system since release 5.0, but I've never been able to get the Debian install disk to boot past this point either. Is there anything I can do to make this work besides waiting for a new release? Do you need more information to help me? Can the Hurd boot off an Extended partition? -- -David Rugge http://www.mindspring.com/~davidrugge/index.html
