Re: New Install
> Well, I had a first go at installing The Hurd Friday night. It appeared
> to go well enough. Trying to boot it for native-install, grub found
> the root partition, gnumach, and serverboot (BTW, using grub to "find
> /boot/gnumach.gz" is a good way to figure out which drive and partition
> to use - this could go in the instructions I think), however, on running
That is a good idea.
> boot, the kernel couldn't find the root partition (yes, I used root=hd0s2
> arg to kernel). It turns out HPT366 ATA66 chipset can be handled by grub,
> but not by gnumach.
That is to say by the bios and not gnumach; All i/o that grub does is via
the BIOS functions.
> Next round, moved disk to an onboard IDE controller (and sacrificed ATA66
> access speed, and reworked linux fstab, yadayada, so I could dual boot),
> and got gnumach to boot (grub's really cool BTW). Now, I can't get the
> network card working. I've been following the new instructions up till
> now, but they petered out at this point. From discussions on this list
Where exactly? And in what regard?
> and from the "Easy Guide", I knew how to do the settrans (settrans -fg
> /servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet --interface=eth0 --address=192.168.56.12
> --netmask=255.255.255.0) and I could ping localhost and 192.168.56.12
> afterwards. However, I can't get to any other host on 192.168.56.x.
> I see from the boot messages that gnumach is detecting the card
> with the via_rhine driver which is what it uses in linux. Ping to a
> non-local address hangs the system if I don't background it. Settrans on
> /servers/socket/2 also hangs it after an unsucessfull ping (which I did
> a few times playing with args to /hurd/pfinet), so I had to power-down
> and fsck the filesystem (from linux). Did this a few times, and decided
Try screen
> to reinstall from a clean partition. Watching for errors during the
> native-install is really hard since they go by so fast and I couldn't
> find a way to capture them, but I'm pretty sure there were none.
Try redirecting them to a file.
> Tried again from clean install, still no network. The card BTW is a
> D-Link DFE-530-TX (a 10/100 PCI card). Went back to linux and looked at
> some files in /proc for a clue and found that linux assigns interrupt
> 5 to both the network card and the the USB controller. I had a device
> plugged into the USB port, so I unplugged it. The USB controller
> itself is onboard so there isn't much I can do to actually disable it.
> Maybe interrupts are assigned differently by gnumach. Anyway, it still
> doesn't work.
Shared irqs do not work at all. Maybe you can disable it in the bios?
Or change the settings on the NIC card?
> Without ppp, it's going to be somewhat of a PITA to install anything
> else past the base system without a network. Any clues for something
> else to try. I've looked at the gnumach source a bit and the via_rhine
> driver looks like one from the linux source tree, fairly old but otherwise
> pretty much unmodified from the linux version. Could I just drop in
> the driver file from a newer linux source tree and recompile gnumach?
> Any other ideas? OS-Kit?
See about. As for OS-Kit, it is worth a shot, however, it is much less
tested.
> PS, I almost forgot, documentation feedback: the New Instructions need
> network setup information. I can't remember where I found links to
> hardware compatibility information, but both guides should have links
> to it.
Will take under advice, thanks.
-Neal
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Neal H Walfield
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
neal@walfield.org or nwalfiel@cs.uml.edu
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