Re: Installing Debian/Hurd
>> Disclaimer: I haven't successfully completed hurd's installation.
I have, well, yes and no.
>> >Hrm, when i first installed hurd i gunzip'd the /boot/gnumach.gz and
>> >serverboot.gz, because i had a bootstra error (i believe this was it..)
>>
>> You don't have to gunzip anything. Leave it as is.
I unzipped them on recomendation as a test.
Made no difference.
When it boots, it doesn't matter if they are zipped or not, but it DOES
matter when the file name is specified, I find.
>> >when using gzipd serverboot and gnumach. Thats it, it hink.
>> >
>> >If you don't think that this is it, email me back and tell me what the
>> >error is =p
>>
>> Where exactly did the failure occur? Sending the last lines might be useful. I
>> know you can't cut-and-paste them, so just manually write it into a mail.
My problems deal with SCSI.
So....
I "acquired" another IDE drive. Making 5 work is not easy :-)
Got hurd running on an IDE drive, but it won't mount a scsi drive at all.
GRUB finds, and uses the SCSI under BIOS control just fine, but the kernel
crashes with a cannot find servers.boot file error every time if it's on the scsi.
Works every time from IDE drives, though.
Always get a failed initialization on the WD-7000 SCSI device ( small wonder,
since the scsi is Advansys ) and probing each LUN times out, twice.
Copied the whole bloody IDE hurd system to a scsi drive.
Got me past the native-install script, anyway.
Now getting "device unconfigured" errors on some disks, while others work.
Will a Linux scsi driver module work with the hurd kernel somehow ?
Can I boot a RAM disk, load the appropriate SCSI drivers, and then
re-mount the SCSI disk as the root ?
Does an advansys driver exist at all for the hurd ?
Can it simply use the existing SCSI BIOS ??
Is there any docs on this, so I can study the FM ??
I'm starting to feel like a leach, rather than a contributor.
ANY pointers appreciated.
--
Cowboy
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
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