Re: HURD installation on laptop

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Justus Winter wrote:

What happened to you at 1) is most likely just bad luck then.  There
is no reason to believe that the bootstrap is different at this point.
The current bootstrap mechanism is unfortunately not very robust and
it is known to randomly hang.

I tried several times though, not just once.

Using lowmem=1  I was then able to install, as Samuel suggested.
The installer did not detect any network card (thus my WLAN card), but I 
isntalled anyway, hoping to get the tools later.


However, the installed version hangs after "exec" during boot.

I have really bad luck with Hurd (and Grub) lately...

Riccardo

Re: HURD installation on laptop

[Svante Signell]

On Wed, 2015-01-28 at 14:46 +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Justus Winter wrote:
> > What happened to you at 1) is most likely just bad luck then.  There
> > is no reason to believe that the bootstrap is different at this point.
> > The current bootstrap mechanism is unfortunately not very robust and
> > it is known to randomly hang.
> I tried several times though, not just once.
> 
> Using lowmem=1  I was then able to install, as Samuel suggested.
> The installer did not detect any network card (thus my WLAN card), but I 
> isntalled anyway, hoping to get the tools later.
> 
> However, the installed version hangs after "exec" during boot.
> 
> I have really bad luck with Hurd (and Grub) lately...

Hi, some questions/thoughts:
1) Can you boot in single-user mode?
2) Did you unstall a gnumach-dbg kernel?
3) Did you install Hurd on a partition?
4) Did you format that partition in the installer?
5) If not, maybe it is corrupt. Can you boot Linux?
6) If so, you can mount and check that partition under linux <= 3.10 

FOSDEM

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hi!

Better late than never!  Please edit/extend
.
with your data.

I'll be available basically all Friday, if somebody wants to meet
already.  I don't really plan to bring powerful computing equipment with
me (for example, for running Hurd in KVM), but I can still be convinced
otherwise.

Oh, and on Friday evening, there's a "GNU dinner".  Guests are very
welcome, of course.
.


Grüße,
 Thomas


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Re: FOSDEM

[Manolis Ragkousis]

On 28 January 2015 at 15:56, Thomas Schwinge  wrote:

> Better late than never!  Please edit/extend
> .
> with your data.

Sorry, I don't have an account either. I am arriving on Friday 11:00
AM and leaving on
Monday around 12PM.

> Oh, and on Friday evening, there's a "GNU dinner".  Guests are very
> welcome, of course.
> .

I don't think I will make it to the dinner, but count me in for a
beer. I will send you my phone number
in another (off-the-list) mail, so you can text me any plans if I am not around.

Looking forward to see you :-D,
Manolis

Re: HURD installation on laptop

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

On 2015-01-28 16:19:05 +0100 Svante Signell  
wrote:




Hi, some questions/thoughts:
1) Can you boot in single-user mode?


no, same problem


2) Did you unstall a gnumach-dbg kernel?


no: this is a fresh CD install


3) Did you install Hurd on a partition?
4) Did you format that partition in the installer?
5) If not, maybe it is corrupt. Can you boot Linux?
6) If so, you can mount and check that partition under linux <= 3.10


I installed using the CD by selecting "whole disk", so no linux, no 
nothing, I hope partitions where automatically formatted before 
installing, it would be a bad bug if not and i wonder how they could 
have been mounted at all during the install process.


The only way i can check this is with a LiveCD or perhaps with the 
install cd itself in rescue mode? I'll try that.


Riccardo