hi, I tried installing the Hurd using the tarball this time and it still didnt boot. I used the tarball at ftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/hurd/contrib/marcus/gnu-20000301.tar.gz As mentioned in the easy guide I formatted /dev/hda12 under Debian 2.2 like so # mke2fs -O sparse_super -o hurd /dev/hda12 I then untarred the tarball like so # cd /;mkdir gnu; mount /dev/hda12 /gnu # tar --same-owner -zxvpf /path/to/tarball/gnu-20000301.tar.gz I have grub installed and it works fine. So I did grub> root=(hd0,11) grub> kernel=/boot/gnumach.gz root=hd0s12 -s grub> module=/boot/serverboot.gz grub> boot I got no error messages from grub and it was able to see the partition, the gnumach.gz and serverboot.gz files etc. It started to boot but stopped like before after detecting scsi hosts. Here are the last few messages I noted down. ppa: PS/2 bidirectional port present ppa: Failed intel bug check (Phony EPP in ECP) ppa: Probing 0278 scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. At this point it freezes, I cant do a three finger salute even. I had to do a cold reset. I looked at my BIOS and there are no SCSI specific settings. I have only IDE devices. I have one hard disk and a couple of CD drives - all of which detected fine. Here is the relevant partition information. $ mount /dev/hda1 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro,errors=remount-ro) /dev/hda3 on /usr type reiserfs (rw,noatime) /dev/hda5 on /usr/local type reiserfs (rw,noatime) /dev/hda6 on /home type reiserfs (rw,noatime) /dev/hda7 on /var type reiserfs (rw) /dev/hda8 on /tmp type reiserfs (rw,noatime) /dev/hda9 on /usr/local/software type reiserfs (rw,noatime) /dev/hda10 on /skratch type reiserfs (rw,noatime) /dev/hda11 on /usr/local/mp3 type reiserfs (rw,noatime) /dev/hda12 on /gnu type ext2 (rw,noatime) $ df -h /gnu Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda12 988M 36M 902M 4% /gnu $ As you are aware earlier I had downloaded the debs and used cross-install. I had exactly the same problem. Could someone tell me what is wrong? Are there any options I can pass so that I get more detailed error messages? Where is the error, in gnumach.gz or serverboot.gz? I dont mind trying out a {gnumach,serverboot}.gz that spews out debugging messages. If this exists please give me a url. Thanks and sorry for the long message. prabhu p.s. Please dont laugh at the number of partitions I have. :)
