Hello! On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 05:47:41PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 03:07:53PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 01:12:40PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > > > I put much hope into my old box, but I forgot that it had some weird > > > software RAID stuff embedded into the motherboard, which I cannot turn > > > off. When I tried to install Debian Hurd on this box, the installation > > > system could not detect my hard drives at all. > > > > The installation system is an old Linux 2.2 (?) one, but if that one has > > problems detecting your HDs, then GNU Mach likely also will have. To > > check that, you could simply boot a GNU Mach kernel on it (just the > > kernel, nothing else) and have a look at the kernel messages. Perhaps > > we're lucky. > > Suppose I take the gnumach executable I'm using presently under QEMU,
It doesn't really matter which one you take, as you're only testing its HDD detection, and that hasn't been touched for a long time. > put it on the partition I have created on the old computer for the > Hurd, then create a GRUB entry similar to the one I'm using at the > moment. Is this the right course of actions Yes, something like that. But it can be even simpler: boot GRUB, go to its command line, type in ``kernel (hdwherever)/it/is/gnumach'' and ``boot''. (If you haven't installed it already, you could even boot GRUB from a rescue CDROM, for example.) Regards, Thomas
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