Re: Getting HURD up and running
Dan Rogers wrote:
> 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.
>
>
Hello Dan,
Neal's ideas are the best; but just to let you know what I have found.
I run a K6 rated at 266 MHZ. It will not run the Hurd, nor will it compile the
Linux kernel without lots of SIG-11/SIG-4 failures.
I have underclocked to 200 MHZ and it runs fine. If Niel's suggestion cures
everything, then fine. But if all else fails, and you want to try an
experiment. Reach into your machine and step it down one gear.
Chris
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