Re: Installation & boot problems
On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 09:22:52AM -0400, Brian Gregor wrote:
>
> I just tried installing on my Redhat 5.2 system, and I am
> having troubles...
>
> While trying to use the cross-install script, I got the
> following error:
> dpkg-hurd: [ too many arguments
> or something similar - this was previously mentioned on the
> mailing list a week or two ago. I have dpkg installed and it
> appears to work fine.
>
> So, I went to use the tarball - gnu-19990505.tar.gz, which
> installed fine on my new Hurd partition. I did use
> mke2fs -o hurd /dev/hda3 to make the partition.
>
> When booting, I got the following error:
> Partition check:
> hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 >
> hdd: PTBL [621/64/63] hdd1
> hda4: bad access: block=28, count=2
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:04, sector 28
> (serverboot): Running without any paging
> /hurd/ext2fs.static: cannot vm_map whole disk: (os/kern)
> no space available
>
> The computer is an AMD K6 200 MHz with 128 meg of RAM. The
> first disk (hda) is 6.8 gig, with the following partition
> scheme:
> hda1: ext2fs, my main linux / partition, about 100 meg
> hda2: fat32, win95 boot partition, about 200 meg
> hda3: ext2fs, now the hurd, about 2.5 gig (has in the
> past contained Solaris and FreeBSD with no prob.)
> hda4: extended
> hda5: 128 meg swap
> hda6: ext2fs, the rest of my redhat installation filling
> the rest of the disk
> hdc: CD-ROM
> hdd1: 1.2 gig, all windoze.
I do beleive that the hurd still does not support partitions greater than 1G
(was it ?). I might not have noticed them fix it though, but I think
that's the problem you are running into.
Ian
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