On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 08:33:10PM -0700, Jake Bishop wrote: > Thanks to everybody for your help. > I upgraded grub to the latest 0.5.95 and I also installed dpkg for non > debian systems on Slackware and DL'd the base pkgs from ftp.debian.org.I > cross-installed the .debs and re booted into grub : > root (hd0,1) -fine, found ext2 file system then, kernel > /boot/gnumach.gz root hd0s1 -s, fine ,I get the line about elf
Mistake #1, GRUB counts partitions from 0 while GNUmach starts from 1. So your (hd0,1) whould be hd0s2. > code.then module /boot/serverboot.gz , then boot, > The boot up sequence starts GNUmach1.2 , then AT386 boot: > ,pcibios_init,It ID's my Hard Drive correct and my CD drive > correctly,then it says floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M > FDC 0 is a post_1991 82077, then it hangs and goes no further. > I have Hurd installed on a 800meg partition /dev/hda2.My PC is a Athlon > 750 on a FIC SD11 mb.Any Ideas? Thanks in advance > Jake > If you are still having problems with GNUmach hanging on you, try to boot with a crosscompiled kernel with only the bare neccessities compiled in. Igor
