> Well, I had a first go at installing The Hurd Friday night. It appeared > to go well enough. Trying to boot it for native-install, grub found > the root partition, gnumach, and serverboot (BTW, using grub to "find > /boot/gnumach.gz" is a good way to figure out which drive and partition > to use - this could go in the instructions I think), however, on running
That is a good idea. > boot, the kernel couldn't find the root partition (yes, I used root=hd0s2 > arg to kernel). It turns out HPT366 ATA66 chipset can be handled by grub, > but not by gnumach. That is to say by the bios and not gnumach; All i/o that grub does is via the BIOS functions. > Next round, moved disk to an onboard IDE controller (and sacrificed ATA66 > access speed, and reworked linux fstab, yadayada, so I could dual boot), > and got gnumach to boot (grub's really cool BTW). Now, I can't get the > network card working. I've been following the new instructions up till > now, but they petered out at this point. From discussions on this list Where exactly? And in what regard? > and from the "Easy Guide", I knew how to do the settrans (settrans -fg > /servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet --interface=eth0 --address=192.168.56.12 > --netmask=255.255.255.0) and I could ping localhost and 192.168.56.12 > afterwards. However, I can't get to any other host on 192.168.56.x. > I see from the boot messages that gnumach is detecting the card > with the via_rhine driver which is what it uses in linux. Ping to a > non-local address hangs the system if I don't background it. Settrans on > /servers/socket/2 also hangs it after an unsucessfull ping (which I did > a few times playing with args to /hurd/pfinet), so I had to power-down > and fsck the filesystem (from linux). Did this a few times, and decided Try screen > to reinstall from a clean partition. Watching for errors during the > native-install is really hard since they go by so fast and I couldn't > find a way to capture them, but I'm pretty sure there were none. Try redirecting them to a file. > Tried again from clean install, still no network. The card BTW is a > D-Link DFE-530-TX (a 10/100 PCI card). Went back to linux and looked at > some files in /proc for a clue and found that linux assigns interrupt > 5 to both the network card and the the USB controller. I had a device > plugged into the USB port, so I unplugged it. The USB controller > itself is onboard so there isn't much I can do to actually disable it. > Maybe interrupts are assigned differently by gnumach. Anyway, it still > doesn't work. Shared irqs do not work at all. Maybe you can disable it in the bios? Or change the settings on the NIC card? > Without ppp, it's going to be somewhat of a PITA to install anything > else past the base system without a network. Any clues for something > else to try. I've looked at the gnumach source a bit and the via_rhine > driver looks like one from the linux source tree, fairly old but otherwise > pretty much unmodified from the linux version. Could I just drop in > the driver file from a newer linux source tree and recompile gnumach? > Any other ideas? OS-Kit? See about. As for OS-Kit, it is worth a shot, however, it is much less tested. > PS, I almost forgot, documentation feedback: the New Instructions need > network setup information. I can't remember where I found links to > hardware compatibility information, but both guides should have links > to it. Will take under advice, thanks. -Neal -- Neal H Walfield University of Massachusetts at Lowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
