Hello, 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.
I tried to boot GNU Mach and got the following: , <0x100000:0x19c0b4:0x0>, <0x29d00:0xe3ac:0x25c48>, shtab=0x2d12f8Starting up ... GNU Mach 1.3.99 AT386 boot: physical memory from 0x0 to 0x1fff0000 pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0xfdb20 pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfdb30 pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb51 Probing PCI hardware. Here it stops. Is this good or bad? :-) Looks like not too good, since probing PCI hardware hangs somewhere. Regards, scolobb
