Re: HURD installation on laptop

[Svante Signell]

On Wed, 2015-01-28 at 14:46 +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Justus Winter wrote:
> > What happened to you at 1) is most likely just bad luck then.  There
> > is no reason to believe that the bootstrap is different at this point.
> > The current bootstrap mechanism is unfortunately not very robust and
> > it is known to randomly hang.
> I tried several times though, not just once.
> 
> Using lowmem=1  I was then able to install, as Samuel suggested.
> The installer did not detect any network card (thus my WLAN card), but I 
> isntalled anyway, hoping to get the tools later.
> 
> However, the installed version hangs after "exec" during boot.
> 
> I have really bad luck with Hurd (and Grub) lately...

Hi, some questions/thoughts:
1) Can you boot in single-user mode?
2) Did you unstall a gnumach-dbg kernel?
3) Did you install Hurd on a partition?
4) Did you format that partition in the installer?
5) If not, maybe it is corrupt. Can you boot Linux?
6) If so, you can mount and check that partition under linux <= 3.10