How are you unpacking baseHurd.tgz onto the HDD? From the CD or from a floppy set?
Phil. On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Dave McDonald wrote: > Hi, > > I have downloaded the hurd-F3-mail CD and used it to create installation > floppies. > > The floppies seem to install fine and the Grub boot floppy loads the > images from the /boot directory on the hard disk, but the boot stops > (without any error messages) after noting that 419 microcode > instructions have been loaded into the the Adaptec 2940U card. > > The configuration of the machine is as follows: > > CPU(s): Intel PPro 200 MHz > RAM: 128 Mb ECC 72 pin > Busses: 1 x PCI (PCI0) + 1 x ISA (PCI1) > Motherboard: > Manufacturer: ASUS? P6NA4 > BIOS: "American Megatrends A6107MS V1.0 > 111496" > Chipset: Intel FX (maybe: that's what it looks > like) > Peripherals: > Onboard: 2 x Serial > 1 x Parallel > 2 x IDE controllers > 1 x Floppy disk controller > 2 x USB ports > PCI Slots: 1 x generic S3 Trio64(+?) Virge > 1 x Adaptec 2940 Ultra (single ended) > SCSI controller (ID#7) > 2 x Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100 > adapters > Drives: > CDROM: Hitachi CDR130 /dev/hdc (Linux) > HDD: Seagate ST3151N (ID#0) > Partition 1: 128 Mb, type 82 (swap) > Partition 2: remainder of 2 Gb drive > > > The BIOS has been set to do the PnP configuration of the relevent > devices. > > Any ideas? > > I have already tried removing the CD-ROM Drive and the second CPU. Power > Management has been turned off. The SCSI bus is correctly terminated (at > the controller and at the drive) and there are no detectable media > defects on the drive. > > Any help appreciated, > > Dave McDonald > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Dunedin, New Zealand; +64 3 4882818 Mobile 025 267 9420. I sell GNU/Linux CDs. See http://www.copyleft.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
