RE: a newbie question
> > Actually, my problem is getting HURD booting atm. Using
> > the tarball install, and following the easy guide instructions
> > verbatim (I'm using /dev/hdb1, just as in the guide), gnumach
> > seems to boot fine, but hangs immediately
> > after "FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077".
> >
>
> It sounds like mach is passing control to serverboot which is then
> choking hard on the partition. Several questions: are you
> sure that it is the right partition? and, Are you sure that you
> have the latest versions of everything specifically the tarball).
>
Try downgrading to an earlier Gnumach. I'm debugging a problem
where IDE partitions are not initialized properly. The behavior
is slightly different than wht you see (it actually claims that
hd1s1 is not present).
-Brent
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