Re: Newbie install problems

[Wiekus Beukes]

I waited for 30 minutes for the next prompt before terminating with a 
key stroke. There must be something about the hardware that the kernel 
does not like, what is the next step in the boot process it might throw 
some light on what my problem is...

WB


On Sunday, August 18, 2002, at 11:00 PM, Wiekus wrote:

> About 10 seconds, the install is on a 1.8Ghz P4 though... I will retry 
> the install and leave it longer to see if it goes passed this point...
>
> Thanks
>
> WB
>
>
> On Sunday, August 18, 2002, at 04:05 PM, Wolfgang Jährling wrote:
>
> > Wiekus <wiekus100@pacbell.net> wrote:
> > > I am unable to get HURD to install. I used both the J1 CD and the tar
> > > file to try to get it to start with the same result.
> > > The kernel starts booting but every time it only gets to the floppy
> > > drive detection message, after which it just stops, when I press a key
> > > the kernel dies with a panic statement and reboots...
> >
> > How long did you wait before pressing the key?  On a slow machine, it
> > will take a few seconds until the next message gets displayed at that
> > point.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > GNU/Wolfgang
> >
> > --
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