I've just downloaded the lovely big tarball (it is the same size and md5 as 20010308 so I'm guessing thats what it is :) and am now having trouble doing the first boot of the hurd. I have: (using Matthew Vernon's install instructions) * Made the half-gig partition (/dev/hda8) * untarred it using --same-owner and -xvpzf * dd'd a grub disk * booted it using (hd0,7), root=hd0s8 * ... and had it hung right after the search for scsi devices.
Which was anti-climatic, and somewhat annoying :-D It detected my HDD (IDE) properly, it seems. It complained that two IOs were in use loading EATA (? i think that was the name of it, a bit hard to do a screen capture :). It gets to the SCSI '0 hosts' bit (which is right, I don't use SCSI), and just.... sits there.... for aaaagggggeeeessss.... then I hit 'reboot'. Any ideas? My system: * Athlon TB 700, 128MB ram * 30GB hdd, 300MB+[2GB+16GB+10GB+500MB+160MB+100MB] or thereabouts ([]'s are for the extended partition) The 500MB one is hurd's The mobo is an Asus A7V (w/ an ATA-100 controller, so it *may* be annoying it, but its not in use ATM) not that this stuff is likely to be a problem, but: * SBLive * nvidia Geforce256 * and thats about it. No NICs, no SCSI, AFAIK no IRQ sharing. Is it trying to do a partition check (which is what happens in linux right after the scsi stuff, at least on my machine). Would compiling from source fix this? Possibly? Thanks very much; mibus -- Robert Mibus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Civilization, as we know it, will end sometime this evening. Full story tomorrow.
