Re: Hellllllp!! booting HURD

[Tomasz Wegrzanowski <maniek@beer.com>]

On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 07:46:04PM +0530, Rakesh Sawan wrote:
> Hi!
> 	I am only two days old to HURD and I tried installing HURD using
> the tar archive file (the latest one Dated some gnu-200000..).
> I have a 433MHZ Intel Celeron with I810 chipsets(Graphics and Audio) with
> 8 G.B. harddisk.
> Harddisk contains one primary partition i.e c:(hda1) of 2 G.B.
> Then the extended partition contains three logical partition of 1 1 and
> 4G.B.
> The 4.G.B partition is again devided into the three partition's with
> 2.G.B for linux and 132 M.B. for swap and rest 900M.B. for HURD.
> I created the hurd partition using mke2fs -o hurd /dev/hda9.
> But I am having problem in booting.
> following is the screen dump.
> I used GRUB boot floppy to boot the system.
> 
> grub>root=(hd0,8)
> **it tell's me about the ext2 partition
> grub>kernel=/boot/gnumach.gz root=hd0s9 -s
> **this also suceeds
> grub>module=/boot/serverboot.gz
> **now the system start's booting
> 
> **first problem comes here
>  --Floppy detection is successful 
> FDC 0 is a post -1991 82077
> 
> **System takes little long time here before it log's this onto the screen 
> 
> Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card 
> EATA0:address 0x1f0 is in use,skipping probe
> 
> **After a few more successful checks I see this error.
> 
> partition check (DOS partitions): 
> hd0:hd0s1 hd0s2<hd0s5 hd0s6 hd0s7 hd0s8 hd0s9> 
> com0:at bus o port=3fd spc=6 pic=4 (DOS COM1) 
> com1:at bus o port=2fd spc=6 pic=4 (DOS COM2)
>  hd0s2:bad access: block=28 count=2 blockend=30 nr_sects 
> end_request:I/O error ,dev 03:02,sector 28 

It crushed in place where it should load root filesystem translator.
Are you sure your disk is ok ?
My proposal of solving problem :
1) try running `badblocks' over Hurd partition (from Linux)
2) try creating Hurd partition with params `-O none -o hurd'

These two are the most obvious.
If they will both fail, we will try something more complex.