Re: system stops booting

2005-11-21 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 06:19:34AM -0800, Philippe Rimmel wrote: > I'm not desperate anymore about seeing the system boot > for the first time, but I still don't know what to do > with the two other puters. If someone has an idea > about what went wrong (definitely not the menu.lst), > thanks to ma

Re: system stops booting

2005-11-21 Thread Philippe Rimmel
Ok, I tried to install the same file from the same Debian CD using the same procedure and even the same GRUB disk on a third (!!!) computer (this one PIII 450). And ... it worked ! I'm not desperate anymore about seeing the system boot for the first time, but I still don't know what to do with th

Re: system stops booting

2005-11-20 Thread Maurice McCarthy
Have a look through Philip Charles install guide www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install It was last updated 31 Oct Maurice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: system stops booting

2005-11-19 Thread Philippe Rimmel
Of course not (sorry, I think I mixed info from the two puters I'm working on) On the first one, the hurd partition is on hd0s1 (which is hd0,0 in grub terminology). On the second one, it's on hd0s2 (i.e. hd0,1) So, I don't have a hd2s1... (I mean the mistake is in the mail not in my menu.lst)

Re: system stops booting

2005-11-19 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 05:11:11AM -0800, Philippe Rimmel wrote: > root (hd0,1) > kernel /boot/gnumach.gz root=device:hd2s1 -s Are you sure it is hd2 in Mach, but hd0 in GRUB? Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org/person/mbanck/diary.html -- To

Re: system stops booting

2005-11-19 Thread Philippe Rimmel
Sure : one line for kernel, one line for ext2fs.static and one line for ld.so.1 I tried passing the arguments manually to the grub shell and then using a menu.lst : the result is just the same. --- "Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >kernel /boot/gnumach.gz root=device:hd2s1 -s >

Re: system stops booting

2005-11-19 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
kernel /boot/gnumach.gz root=device:hd2s1 -s 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) module /li

system stops booting

2005-11-19 Thread Philippe Rimmel
Hello I tried to install the Hurd on two distinct machines (PII 350 and PIII 700) and I had twice the same problem... Here is what I did : 1) format a 600M partition and mke2fs -o hurd -b 4096 2) boot on the debian cdrom to install the base system on that hurd partition 3) make a grub disk and