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Re: Trouble installing hurd-F3-main



I'm using a system with an Adaptec 3940 (dual channel pci scsi card), 
so I would guess the problem is not the SCSI card.  



On Sun, 12 Aug 2001 13:09:12 +0200, Joachim Nilsson wrote:

>On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 06:58:09PM +1000, Dave McDonald wrote:
>> 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.
>> [snip]
>>         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
>                                                  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>I'm unsure, but to my knowledge Hurd/GNUmach doesn't yet understand
>partitions greater than 1024 MB. Try using two smaller partitions
>(<1024 MB).
>
>If that doesn't help maybe your Adaptec SCSI-card isn't yet ported.
>Some of the developers might be aware of this ...
>
>
> /Joachim
>
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