Hello, I'm forwarding my earlier email to help-hurd and debian-hurd as my original email to bug-hurd never seems to have arrived…
Further to the information below, I have now also noticed, during the initial start of the debian installer that there is an error message: /dev/console: permission denied Which seems to fit with the problems I have accessing /dev/ described in my email below. I can also now say that the failure in the installation process likely correlates to the following error message in /var/log/syslog: Jan 30 17:27:09 main-menu[1276]: INFO Menu item 'console-setup-udeb' selected Jan 30 17:27:10 main-menu[1276]: (process:1742): cat: can't open '/var/run/hurd-console.pid': No such file or directory Jan 30 17:27:10 main-menu[1276]: WARNING **: Configuring 'console-setup-udeb' failed with error code 1 Hopefully this additional information, along with my original email below will help to discover what's going on here. Best wishes, Alex PS: I've completed Gnome Disk-Utility most exhaustive disk check on the hard drive and no serious issues were found (just the few bad sectors mentioned below). Alex Sassmannshausen <[email protected]> writes: > Hello, > > I'm trying to install the Hurd on an old i386 laptop I have at home. I'm > for now using the Debian installer (7 Jan release, CD 1), and run into > the following problem: > - Text Install proceeds until Keyboard setup. This step, upon selecting > the layout, consistently fails. > - Proceeding onto the next step, mounting the CD-Rom, I get the > following error: > > hd0: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } > hd0: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete } > hd0: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } > ide0: reset: success > hd0: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete } > hd0: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete } > hd0: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete } > hd0: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } > ide0: reset: success > hd0: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete } > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00, sector 2 > > - Alternatively, when I execute a shell from within the installer the > shell launches, but no /target directory exists (not at root, nor at > /media/target or at /mnt/target). When I do > $ ls /dev/ > I get the same error as above. > > I guess there is some problem accessing the hard drive, which still > works though has one or two bad sectors — I'm running some tests on it > now. > > Could there be anything I could look at to resolve this issue? Or can I > provide any other information that might help clarify whether this is a > bug somewhere? > > Best wishes, > > Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
