Re: HURD installation on laptop

2015-01-28 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, On 2015-01-28 16:19:05 +0100 Svante Signell wrote: Hi, some questions/thoughts: 1) Can you boot in single-user mode? no, same problem 2) Did you unstall a gnumach-dbg kernel? no: this is a fresh CD install 3) Did you install Hurd on a partition? 4) Did you format that partition

Re: HURD installation on laptop

2015-01-28 Thread Svante Signell
On Wed, 2015-01-28 at 14:46 +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi, > > Justus Winter wrote: > > What happened to you at 1) is most likely just bad luck then. There > > is no reason to believe that the bootstrap is different at this point. > > The current bootstrap mechanism is unfortunately not ver

Re: HURD installation on laptop

2015-01-28 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Justus Winter wrote: What happened to you at 1) is most likely just bad luck then. There is no reason to believe that the bootstrap is different at this point. The current bootstrap mechanism is unfortunately not very robust and it is known to randomly hang. I tried several times though, n

Re: HURD installation on laptop

2015-01-27 Thread Justus Winter
Quoting Riccardo Mottola (2015-01-25 17:55:13) > Hi, > > I'm trying to install HURD on a laptop > PIII 700, 392MB Ram, wireless card ("ral") > > full image, 5-1-2015 > > 1) text install. Install hangs idle (the cpu fan stops, thus I suppose > no loop) > start ext2fs: Hurd server bootstrap: ext2

Re: HURD installation on laptop

2015-01-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Riccardo Mottola, le Sun 25 Jan 2015 17:55:13 +0100, a écrit : > I'm trying to install HURD on a laptop > PIII 700, 392MB Ram, wireless card ("ral") That's not much RAM, we still haven't fixed some spurious allocations for the initrd, I'm afraid 392M may not be enough for the default d-i process.

HURD installation on laptop

2015-01-25 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, I'm trying to install HURD on a laptop PIII 700, 392MB Ram, wireless card ("ral") full image, 5-1-2015 1) text install. Install hangs idle (the cpu fan stops, thus I suppose no loop) start ext2fs: Hurd server bootstrap: ext2fs[gunzip:device:rd0] exec 2) pseudo-graphical install: gives so