Re: reinstallation with host machine - no success
Svante Signell wrote: 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) I used: https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/installer/cdimage/netinst.iso which would be may 2014. I don't think there were network problems. As said, by using this second PC I had no troubles during installation. It is very strange that on the original PC I get this continuous reboot.. as if GRUB was causing a problem? Anyway today I tried again on the host pc. I got an fsck warning, fsck executed and I got to a root prompt! Cool! Then I reboot... and my BIOS says that my setup is gone. BINGO! Did you remember perhaps that I was signalling this problem with my old PC? if a a successful multi-user boot succeeded, my BIOS was botched. Fine. Very fine. this can be reproduced on a different PC, different manufacturer, different CPU and much newer. Darn. Riccardo
reinstallation with host machine - no success
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 :( Riccardo
Re: reinstallation with host machine - no success
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)
