Re: Initial boot problem with cdrom

[Evgeny Stukalov]

Yes, this installation guide is what I was using, up
to the point of encountering the problem.  The guide
does not offer any solutions to it (except for
recompiling with only essential drivers, which, as I
mentioned before, I tried, but that didn't solve the
problem). :((

--- "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@kemisten.nu> wrote:
> 
> Please read the installation guide by Neal H.
> Walfield [1].
> 
> [1]:
>
http://web.walfield.org/papers/hurd-installation-guide/english/hurd-install-guide.html
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Alfred M. Szmidt


--- Evgeny Stukalov <dazhdbog@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I've run into a problem while trying to
> cross-install
> the Hurd. The initial GNUMach boot stops in midway. 
> I've checked that no shared irq's are in use, 
> and that block size for the Hurd partition is set
> correctly.  After checking the archives 
> of this list and the debian-hurd mailing list I
> recompiled the latest release of gnumach
> (gnumach-1.3.tar.gz from ftp.gnu.org) with only bare
> essentials included (with --enable-ide as the only
> driver option), but booting the new gnumach gave the
> same results.  Here are the boot lines:
> 
> .
> .
> AT386 boot: physical memory from 0x0 to 0x9c00000
> pci bios_init: BIOS32 Service Directory structure at
> 0x 000f7640
> pci bios_init: BIOS32 Service Directory structure
> entry at 0xfd7c0
> pci bios_init: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at
> 0xfd9d4
> Probing PCI hardware.
> hd0: ST34323A, 4112MB w/128kB cache, CHS=557/240/63
> hd1: Compaq CRD-8322B, ATAPI CDROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0 - 0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14
> 
> After that it just sits there indefinitely, until a
> key is pressed, which results in kernel panic, or
> till
> I power-reboot.
> 
> What seems strange to me, is that Mach boots just
> fine
> when the cdrom drive is removed.  According to the
> boot messages that Mach correctly identified the
> cdrom
> drive (which is indeed CRD-8322B), so I wonder what
> else is there to try to make it boot normally
> (besides
> unplugging the ide cable from the cdrom drive for
> good).


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