Re: Disc issues

[Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de>]

Am 02.05.2012 14:12, schrieb harish badrinath:
> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> wrote:
>> Am 02.05.2012 14:03, schrieb harish badrinath:
>>> Hello,
>>> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I went with the default settings everywhere, except for choosing German
>>>> in the beginning. At some time during package installation (after the
>>>> tasksel stuff), I get a reboot putting me back to the start menu (there
>>>> was no additional menu or confirmation). There I can choose the
>>>> installers and to boot from first harddisk. When I choose to boot from
>>>> first harddisk there, I just get a non-blinking cursor in an otherwise
>>>> black QEMU window. The same then happens when I restart qemu (or do a
>>>> system reset in the qemu monitor).
>>> May be the installation was not successful. I have noticed that too
>>> little memory/running out of memory (of Guest in case HURD is running
>>> inside a VM)  causes reboots on HURD.
>>
>> I used
>>
>> kvm -m 2G -net nic,model=ne2k_pci -net user -cdrom cd-1.iso -boot d
>> -drive file=hurd-raw.qemu,cache=writeback
>>
>> which is 4 times the amount of memory recommended at
>> http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/installer/cdimage/README.txt
>>
> May be paste the install log stored by debian installer ..
> Please see http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch06s01.html.en
>> Philipp
> 
> 

It seems my mail with attachments didn't get through, so I uploaded
var/log to http://pholia.tdi.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~philipp/hurd/log/

>From my original mail:

> I mounted the qemu image, but did not find a /var/log/syslog or
> /var/log/installer/syslog as mentioned on that page:
> 
> phoinikas:/home/philipp/hurd# ls -l /mnt/var/log
> insgesamt 240
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  12898 Mai  2 13:34 alternatives.log
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 Mai  2 13:26 apt
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  12991 Mai  2 13:38 aptitude
> -rw-r----- 1 root adm      31 Mai  2 13:24 boot
> -rw-rw---- 1 root utmp      0 Mai  2 13:23 btmp
> -rw-r----- 1 root adm      31 Mai  2 13:24 dmesg
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 185728 Mai  2 13:40 dpkg.log
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 Mai  2 13:24 fsck
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp  29784 Mai  2 13:24 lastlog
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp      0 Mai  2 13:23 wtmp
> 
> I attached the dpkg.log, apt/history.log, apt/term.log and aptitude
> since those were the most recently updated ones.
> 
> Philipp