Hello, I tried getting the Hurd to work yesterday. I felt like a lucky man, because I have reasonably standard system, and a nice small (older?) 99Mb harddisk called /dev/hdb (or, if you wish, /dev/hd1) with one partition on it called /dev/hdb1 (/dev/hd1s1).
So this meant that I could follow the examples without much thinking, because they also used /dev/hdb1 :-) The cross-install script worked really smooth. It halted once, with an error like "can't find server http:://deb:80/foo", so I was afraid that there was a major error in the script, but upon restarting it, it finished its job of downloading and installing the packages "in one fell swoop", as they call it. I even enjoyed some rare late-night high connection speed, so I thought, what could possibly go wrong? Then I downloaded a GRUB image from alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/grub [*], and smacked it on a floppy, and rebooted. GRUB gave an error because the image happend to be pre-built to boot from this-and-that partition, but after "pressing any key", I got into the menu, pressed "c" and typed in the necessary parameters (from the EasyGuide). The HURD booted, with the usual stampede of kernel information, but it halted after: SCSI: 0 hosts SCSI: detected total. Browsing through mailing lists, it seems that I am not the first one with a kernel that halted exactly there, but it also wasn't like the whole world suffered from it. Retrying had the same results. No real error messages, except for some "warning: probe failed of <something I don't have anyway>" earlier on. System information: Genuine Intel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unknown motherboard (I'm not sure) Ne2000 card w. io=0x300, which seems to be hard to probe for some?? Soundblaster 64 PCI, a.k.a. to the Linux kernel as Ensonic ATI Rage Idunnoexactly+ a.k.a. to XFree86 as Mach64 ...and that's it. Extra info: at /boot, there is also a file called servers.boot.dpkg-new. This has probably got to do with my 2nd attempt after the first one failed? It should be harmless, I guess, though... Hope you can help me out, Stefan [*] The EasyGuide still points to a GRUB boot image, that has been renamed to (something like) "obsolete-use-slash-gnu-slash-grub-instead" for a year now, looking at date of the file. So it seemed reasonable for me to get a alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/grub image instead of this one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
