Re: hangs with (hd0,2)/hurd/ext2fs.static

[Patrick Strasser]

Shakthi Kannan wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> Rebooted to grub.At grub prompt,
>
>     ("find /boot/gnumach.gz" returns (hd0,2)

Once You've found gnumach.gz you've found your working partition.
You can set your default partition for the following commands with "root":

root (hd0,2)

For the "kernel" and "module" command leave out the "(hd0,2)"

> Partition check (DOS partitions):
>     hd0: hd0: status timeout: status=0xff { Busy }
> hd1: disabled DMA
> hd0: drive not ready for command

Tell us more about your IDE configuration:
Do you have some other drive on ide channel 1 (some /dev/hda in Linux)?

Once more: Better use the GRUB Image from
http://www.copyleft.co.nz/links.html
Write it on a floppy and edit the menu.lst to match your setup.

Patrick