Re: Debian/Hurd won't boot

[Tomas Tintera]

On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:35 +0200, Daniel Kraft wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm interested in experimenting with GNU/Hurd and am now trying to
> install it as second system on my PC. I followed the instructions for
> Debian GNU/Hurd:
> 
> http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install
> 
> (using a downloaded fresh .tgz file not a CD)
> 
> As native system, I'm running i686-gnu-linux and GRUB legacy (0.97) as
> bootloader.
> 
> When I try to boot mach / the Hurd as described, I get some output
> first but after about 10 seconds the machine automatically reboots

Recently, I have experienced the same problem, using GRUB 2. I noticed
that if I set GNU/Hurd as a default entry, boot the computer and let
GRUB load the OS without touching the keyboard, everything goes well.

Also, this workaround solves the problem for me:
Add "sleep 10" as the first command for the GNU/Hurd entry in grub.cfg
(in GRUB 2).

However, it is still strange and I have no idea where it comes from.
Any suggestions?


Best regards,
Tomas "trosos" Tintera


>  (thus it seems as if the bootstrap panic'ed or something like that);
> the screen prints something about ext2fs.static, but it goes away
> immediatelly so I unfortunatelly can't tell what the message is
> exactly about...
> 
> The documentation suggests that a common problem is shared IRQs, I
> checked /proc/interrupts on my GNU/Linux system:
> 
> CPU0
>   0:     313630   IO-APIC-edge      timer
>   1:         10   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
>  11:       2354   IO-APIC-fasteoi   acpi
>  12:        123   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
>  14:      42852   IO-APIC-edge      ide0
>  15:         33   IO-APIC-edge      ide1
>  17:          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ndiswrapper
>  18:          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   SiS SI7012
>  19:      12044   IO-APIC-fasteoi   eth0
>  20:       3509   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ohci_hcd:usb2
>  21:      12586   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ohci_hcd:usb3
>  23:          3   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ehci_hcd:usb1
> NMI:          0   Non-maskable interrupts
> LOC:         30   Local timer interrupts
> RES:          0   Rescheduling interrupts
> CAL:          0   function call interrupts
> TLB:          0   TLB shootdowns
> TRM:          0   Thermal event interrupts
> SPU:          0   Spurious interrupts
> ERR:          0
> MIS:          0
> 
> If I interpret this correctly, the first columns are the IRQs and none
> is shared? Or am I missing something?
> 
> What's the problem with this, any suggestions how I could get the Hurd
> booting?
> 
> Thank you very much,