Re: [despammed] Re: Hurd freezed on boot

2002-12-12 Thread Gaël Le Mignot
Alfred a écrit : >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. Well, pay attentio

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