Re: [despammed] Re: Hurd freezed on boot

2002-12-10 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
I will to reinstall. I haven't tried this yet. I've seen some variations of the 'mke2fs -o hurd" command. One with sparse_super and another with some other parameters. What's the best one to use? Use the one that is in Neal guide.

Re: [despammed] Re: Hurd freezed on boot

2002-12-10 Thread Sean McEligot
> You cannot run native-install from Linux since it only a kernel, what > you mean is GNU/Linux which is GNU using Linux as its kernel. See > http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html for more information. Sorry , I understand and fully respect the term GNU/LINUX and GNU's massive contribution to

Re: [despammed] Re: Hurd freezed on boot

2002-12-10 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
> Sounds like you didn't follow Neal's guide, please follow it exactly. The installation guide (as I read it) says to run native install from hurd, not from linux (see below). I can't boot hurd. Is there something I should run from linux? My archive searching seems to suggent that c

Re: [despammed] Re: Hurd freezed on boot

2002-12-10 Thread Sean McEligot
> Sounds like you didn't follow Neal's guide, please follow it exactly. The installation guide (as I read it) says to run native install from hurd, not from linux (see below). I can't boot hurd. Is there something I should run from linux? My archive searching seems to suggent that cross-install us

Re: Re: [despammed] Re: Hurd freezed on boot

2002-12-10 Thread Matthew Grant
Hi If your machine has a sound card, modem, or some other unsupported card you might be suffering from a shared irq syndrom. If you think you have followed Neal's install guide exactly you might want to yank out a sound card or modem and see if GNU/Hurd boots afterward. thanks Matt Grant --

Re: [despammed] Re: Hurd freezed on boot

2002-12-10 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
I haven't run it at all. I haven't been able to boot. It reboots by itself before I ever get a prompt. Sounds like you didn't follow Neal's guide, please follow it exactly.

Re: [despammed] Re: Hurd freezed on boot

2002-12-10 Thread Sean McEligot
> Did you run ./native-install twice? I haven't run it at all. I haven't been able to boot. It reboots by itself before I ever get a prompt. -- http://fastmail.fm - mmm... fastmail...

Re: [despammed] Re: Hurd freezed on boot

2002-12-10 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
From searching the archives, it looks like the /dev/console message might be normal. The other messages were about processes exiting with error status, and mounting read-only. It's hard to get it all down. It don't see a logfile in /var/log/. I know that's not much info, but I'm not sur

Re: [despammed] Re: Hurd freezed on boot

2002-12-10 Thread Sean McEligot
> You didn't read Neal's guide very carefully, this should be: > > kernel /boot/gnumach.gz -s root=device:hd0s6 > > Note the device: tag. Thanks, that did it. Now I get a little further... Now it reboots after some error messages. I think the first error was: /dev/console no such file then la

Re: [despammed] Re: Hurd freezed on boot

2002-12-10 Thread Sean McEligot
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:24:47 +0100, "Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >kernel /boot/gnumach.gz -s root=hd0s6 > > You didn't read Neal's guide very carefully, this should be: > > kernel /boot/gnumach.gz -s root=device:hd0s6 Thanks, I will try that tonight. I have have already tried

Re: Hurd freezed on boot

2002-12-10 Thread Sean McEligot
> http://web.walfield.org/papers/hurd-installation-guide/english/hurd-install-guide.html > > There's other newbie info at hurd.gnufans.org and > seinfeld.arrowstreet.com . =) Thanks for the links. > It looks to me like you need a '\' character at the > end of > each line of the module /hurd/ext2

Re: setting date stops networking?

2002-12-10 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
I will do a detailed debug using gdb after I know how to step or set breakpoints :( Read the info pages for gdb. And you will need to compile date/etc with debugging symbols.

Re: setting date stops networking?

2002-12-10 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 04:31:08PM +0700, Andika Triwidada wrote: > Hello, > > Upon seeing that date on my Hurd box is incorrect, I adjust it > using 'date'. I did this from a ssh session. And suddenly my hurd box > turned deaf. I don't know the proper command to restart networking, > so I reboot

Re: setting date stops networking?

2002-12-10 Thread Andika Triwidada
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 11:21:21AM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > Could you please debug it? And give us an back trace? Also, be more > specifc in your bugg reports, please tell us what you typed. > > Script started on Wed Dec 11 10:11:07 2002 hurd:~/date# uname -a GNU hurd 0.3 GNUmach-1.2/H

Re: Hurd freezed on boot

2002-12-10 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
kernel /boot/gnumach.gz -s root=hd0s6 You didn't read Neal's guide very carefully, this should be: kernel /boot/gnumach.gz -s root=device:hd0s6 Note the device: tag.

Re: setting date stops networking?

2002-12-10 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Could you please debug it? And give us an back trace? Also, be more specifc in your bugg reports, please tell us what you typed.

Re: Hurd freezed on boot

2002-12-10 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
module /hurd/ext2fs.static --multiboot-command-line=${kernel-command-line} --host-priv-port=${host-port} --device-master-port=${device-port} --exec-server-task=${exec-task} -T typed ${root} $(task-create) $(task-resume) This should all be on one line!

setting date stops networking?

2002-12-10 Thread Andika Triwidada
Hello, Upon seeing that date on my Hurd box is incorrect, I adjust it using 'date'. I did this from a ssh session. And suddenly my hurd box turned deaf. I don't know the proper command to restart networking, so I reboot it. Is this a know bug? Thanks, -- andika