Re: HHG and newbie Hurd Hackers

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hello!

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 02:32:01PM -0500, R. Steven Rainwater wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 17:47, Claudio Fontana wrote:
> > http://www.nongnu.org/thug/gnumach_hardware.html
> 
> Thanks for the link. We should probably incorporate an updated version
> of that into the new Hurd Wiki. 

<http://www.bddebian.com/~wiki/microkernel/mach/gnumach/hardwarecompatibilitylist/discussion/>
<http://www.bddebian.com/~wiki/microkernel/mach/gnumach/hardwarecompatibilitylist/>


> The first box [...]

> The second box [...]

> The third box [...]

Feel invited to add all this information to the wiki pages mentioned
above.  If you don't know where / how to put it, just stick it as-is into
the discussion page.


> the Hurd died with errors complaining it couldn't read the
> disk partition.
> 
> Success was achieved when I took the hard disk from box two and
> installed it in box three.

How big is this hard disk?  Ben Asselstine also recently reported about
having no luck with booting when using a 300 GiB hard disk.  We suspect
that there may be problems somewhere in GNU Mach and / or GNU Hurd's
libdiskfs and / or ext2fs.


Regards,
 Thomas

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