Problems building K8 / L1 CDs

[Philip Charles <philipc@copyleft.co.nz>]

I am getting errors with the trial build of the K8 set which was built
using the latest archives.

These messages were copied by hand.

When booting.

hd0: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveRady SeekCompleteError }
hd0: dma_intr: error 0x84 { BadCRC DriveStatusError }
	LBAsect=4054335, sector=114440
(This is repeated for a number of sectors.)

After the installation, in multi user mode and logged in as root.

# nano
No such file or directory.

# /usr/bin/nano
Too many syslinks (or something similar).

None of this happens with K7


Working on the assumption that this problem has something to do with the
new mke2fs. The 1-2 gig limit has gone.

An attempt was made to create a Hurd fs on a new partition using
mkfs -b 4096 -o hurd /dev/hd0s1 from the new GNU installation

# mkfs -b 4096 -o hurd /dev/hd0s1
Debugger invoked, but there isn't one.
(panic and reboot)

Any help and pointers would be welcome.

Phil.

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