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Re: Try try again



Hi,

Start over and when you format your partition, passing the -O none
arguments to mke2fs.  This will disable the extra features that linux
likes and may be confusing the hurd.  Although this should be fixed,
it is worth a try anyway.

Good luck and keep plugging!

-Neal


On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 08:56:28PM -0700, Dan Rogers wrote:
> Ok, after hurd failed to start up, I stripped my machine (including turning 
> off stuff in the bios) so that I only had 1 IDE bus, a hard drive, a 
> floppy, a keyboard, and a video card.  Hurd still didn't start.  It stopped 
> at the same place (well except it didn't detect the serial ports because 
> they were disabled)
> I am using the lastest tarball pointed to in the "Install hurd from linux" 
> page.  (dated something like march 2000), but  I had this same problem last 
> december though.
> 
> Has anyone had any similar experience?
> 
> Hurd doesn't crash at startup, it just stops.  Is there anyway I can drop 
> into a kernel debugger to see whats up?  I don't know any asm, so I don't 
> know how much I could learn, but it would be more than I know now.
> 
> Thanks,
> Daniel S Rogers
> dsrogers@uclink4.berkeley.edu
> 
> 
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