hurd haning on boot (virtual box)

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

do you guys have any experience using HURD on VirtualBox? It is my last 
resort currently to test a bit of hurd
1. original workstation which run HURD for 6 years: incapable of 
reinstall: low memory and somehow incompatible with current GRUB (wrote 
to GRUB ML, got no answer)
2. spare laptop: installs, but PCMCIA network card not recognize, could 
try WiFi but don't know which/what tools to install to test

thus... 3. VirtualBox

Install went fine, system boots, network works. After a bit it stops 
working reliable, I wanted to investigate more, but now the machine 
stops booting. It did previously boot  couple of times

I can boot in "recovery mode" with success, but if I reboot, I get as 
far as the attached screenshot.

start ext2fs: Hurd server bootstrap: exec startup proc auth

I have seen this on my "old" box too, before I reinstalled it and got it 
no longer working.
The CPU of the host goes up high, so it is stuck in some sort of loop.


Riccardo

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