On Sat, 2014-11-22 at 15:02 +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi, > > since reinstalling on my old memory machine is a dead-end, I tried > another route: I took the disk from my PII machine to another box, which > has 1GB of RAM, 1.6GHz processor but still has PATA so I could attach my > disk. Since the old box did run HURD for years, I hope it will become > usable again once reinstalled. > > Installation on the fast box (an IBM NetVista) went quite fine, I could > also use the pseudo-graphical install. Everything is faster of course, > no problem with drivers and it installed GRUB and all packages. > > However, at reboot, after GRUB, the machine hangs! Exactly in the same > place! > > The installer doesn't install also the debug kernel by default, right? > > Out of curiosity, I took the HD and put it in the original machine an > there it just self-reboots instead of displaying GRUB. This is much > worse than before :(
Which image did you use? And if using the latest image did you enable network or not? I think you should use a known working image and install without upgrading (i.e. no network) intil the install is completed. It can happen that the latest sid version is broken (happened to me a few times)
