Re: Installing Debian hurd/i386

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi Jonathan!

On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 22:28:05 -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Quick notes:
> 
>  - dhcp does not work.  Known problem, I think.

Hmmm, I thought we had this at some point in the past?

>  - booting with a disk of >4 GiB fails, so I used 3 GiB.

This restriction was supposedly lifter long time ago. What was the
error you got and from where?

> For the first try, I used --readonly.  It booted partway and stoped at
> 
> 	start ext2fs: Hurd server bootstrap: ext2fs[device:hd0s1] exec init proc auth 
> 
> After a few more tries, it mounts swap and then
> 
> 	fsck from util-linux-ng 2.16.2
> 	hd2: irq timeout: status=0x50
> 	hd2: irq timeout: status=0x50
> 	hd2: irq timeout: status=0x50
> 	hd2: unexpected_intr: status=0x58

That seems to show up with kvm from experimental, try passing to it
“-no-kvm-irqchip”.

thanks,
guillem