Re: Trouble installing hurd-F3-main
How are you unpacking baseHurd.tgz onto the HDD? From the CD or from a
floppy set?
Phil.
On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Dave McDonald wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have downloaded the hurd-F3-mail CD and used it to create installation
> floppies.
>
> The floppies seem to install fine and the Grub boot floppy loads the
> images from the /boot directory on the hard disk, but the boot stops
> (without any error messages) after noting that 419 microcode
> instructions have been loaded into the the Adaptec 2940U card.
>
> The configuration of the machine is as follows:
>
> CPU(s): Intel PPro 200 MHz
> RAM: 128 Mb ECC 72 pin
> Busses: 1 x PCI (PCI0) + 1 x ISA (PCI1)
> Motherboard:
> Manufacturer: ASUS? P6NA4
> BIOS: "American Megatrends A6107MS V1.0
> 111496"
> Chipset: Intel FX (maybe: that's what it looks
> like)
> Peripherals:
> Onboard: 2 x Serial
> 1 x Parallel
> 2 x IDE controllers
> 1 x Floppy disk controller
> 2 x USB ports
> PCI Slots: 1 x generic S3 Trio64(+?) Virge
> 1 x Adaptec 2940 Ultra (single ended)
> SCSI controller (ID#7)
> 2 x Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100
> adapters
> Drives:
> CDROM: Hitachi CDR130 /dev/hdc (Linux)
> HDD: Seagate ST3151N (ID#0)
> Partition 1: 128 Mb, type 82 (swap)
> Partition 2: remainder of 2 Gb drive
>
>
> The BIOS has been set to do the PnP configuration of the relevent
> devices.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> I have already tried removing the CD-ROM Drive and the second CPU. Power
> Management has been turned off. The SCSI bus is correctly terminated (at
> the controller and at the drive) and there are no detectable media
> defects on the drive.
>
> Any help appreciated,
>
> Dave McDonald
>
>
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