Re: Debian/Hurd won't boot

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 04:35:07PM +0200, Daniel Kraft wrote:

> When I try to boot mach / the Hurd as described, I get some output first  
> but after about 10 seconds the machine automatically reboots (thus it  
> seems as if the bootstrap panic'ed or something like that); the screen  
> prints something about ext2fs.static, but it goes away immediatelly so I  
> unfortunatelly can't tell what the message is exactly about...
>
> The documentation suggests that a common problem is shared IRQs, I  
> checked /proc/interrupts on my GNU/Linux system:

[...]
>  17:          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ndiswrapper
>  18:          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   SiS SI7012
>  19:      12044   IO-APIC-fasteoi   eth0
>  20:       3509   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ohci_hcd:usb2
>  21:      12586   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ohci_hcd:usb3
>  23:          3   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ehci_hcd:usb1

Unfortunately gnumach can't cope with interrupts above 15 either...

But I'm not sure this is the reason of your problem.

Try adding -H to the gnumach command line -- with a bit of luck, it will
halt instead of rebooting with that...

-antrik-