Re: Grub

[Igor Khavkine <i_khavki@alcor.concordia.ca>]

On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 08:33:10PM -0700, Jake Bishop wrote:
> Thanks to everybody for your help.
> I upgraded grub to the latest 0.5.95 and  I also installed dpkg for non
> debian systems on Slackware and DL'd the base pkgs from ftp.debian.org.I
> cross-installed the .debs and re booted into grub :
> root (hd0,1) -fine, found ext2 file system then, kernel
> /boot/gnumach.gz  root hd0s1 -s, fine ,I get the line about elf

Mistake #1, GRUB counts partitions from 0 while GNUmach starts from 1.
So your (hd0,1) whould be hd0s2.

> code.then module /boot/serverboot.gz , then boot,
> The boot up sequence starts GNUmach1.2 , then AT386 boot:
> ,pcibios_init,It ID's my Hard Drive correct and my CD drive
> correctly,then it says floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> FDC 0 is a post_1991 82077, then it hangs and goes no further.
> I have Hurd installed on a 800meg partition /dev/hda2.My PC is a Athlon
> 750 on a FIC SD11 mb.Any Ideas? Thanks in advance
> Jake
> 

If you are  still having problems with GNUmach hanging on you, try to boot 
with a crosscompiled kernel with only the bare neccessities compiled in.

Igor