Re: Hurd Boot Errors
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 06:06:52PM -0700, Grant Bowman wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am a new almost-user of the Hurd after a bit of a hiatus.
> I am having a problem getting a machine booted. It's a K6-233 96 MB RAM
> 10 GB almost clean ATA hard disk with an old Buslogic SCSI card for the
> CD-ROM. After compiling the CVS working copy of Hurd and using a
> script of Marcus' for doing the cross-inst, I am still having troubles.
> All seems ok when giving Grub root=(hd0,0); kernel=/boot/gnumach.gz
> root=hd0s0 -s; module=/boot/serverboot.gz; boot.
^^^^^
Try hd0s1, Mach partition count starts with 1, not 0 like grub.
For more info, lookup the "Easy Guide", it's one of the links posted not so
long ago on this list, check the archives.
Igor
>
> The kernel begins to come up successfully with IDE & SCSI CD-ROM
> recognized. Then I get a few dozen identical messages:
>
> ../../../i386/linux/../../linux/dev/glue/kmem.c:434: __get_free_pages:
> ran out of pages
>
> The the ne2K-pci next comes up with eth0 OK. Then I get the following:
>
> Partition check (DOS partitions):
> hd0:../../../i386/linux/../../linux/dev/glue/kmem.c:434:
> __get_free_pages: ran out of pages
> unable to read the parition table.
> com0 [com0 config]
> com1 [com1 config]
> Can't open server boot script [/dev/hd0s0/boot/servers.boot: In
> appropriate file type or format
> Server boot script? [/dev/hd0s0/boot/servers.boot]
>
> Whatever I try from here it tells me that the "Root device 'hd0s0' does
> not exist!" I alternate between prompts for root device name and server
> boot script. I have a similar machine that does the same thing: AMD
> K6-233, Adaptec SCSI, 64 MB RAM, 3GB ATA disk.
>
> Any suggestions are appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
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