Getting HURD up and running

[Dan Rogers <dsrogers@uclink4.berkeley.edu>]

Ok, have been trying to get Hurd up and running, but I am having a little 
trouble.

I used the big tar ball method to install hurd on a 950 mb partition.

I have a K6-II 450, ALI Aladdin V AGP chipset, 64 Mb PC100 ram, a 13 Gb 
harddrive with 2 ext2 partitions (including hurd) a reiserfs partition, a 
BeOS partition and a swap partition.  I have a 3Com 3C905C ethernet card, a 
Nvidia Riva128 video card, ixMicro TV tuner/video capture card, and a 
SB16PNP sound card.  Finally, I have a PS/2 mouse and keyboard

I can get grub to boot hurd from a floppy.  However, when hurd begins to 
boot, if I press anything on my keyboard, I get a kernel panic.  If I try 
and just let it boot, hurd just sorta stops after it detects my 2 COM ports.

Does anyone have any ideas about getting hurd to boot for me?  Should I 
just give up?  I would really like to contribute to the project, but I 
can't do that without a working hurd.

Thanks
Daniel S Rogers
dsrogers@uclink4.berkeley.edu