---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: Booting the Hurd on Adaptec AIC7850 fails Date: 25 Aug 1999 12:50:32 -0000 From: "A. P. Garcia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
A friend of mine and myself had the same problem two days ago when we tried to install the same tar on my system, which has an Adaptec 2940UW [7880]. So I suspect you're right that it's the aic7xxx driver, which has also caused me a few headaches under Linux. I even voiced this hypothesis when our installation failed. The only error information we wrote down was "kernel general protection trap 13" - I was going to search through the archives before reporting it. > 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
