Re: HHG and newbie Hurd Hackers

[R. Steven Rainwater]

On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 10:28, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> 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/>
> 
> Feel invited to add all this information to the wiki pages
> mentioned above.

I've added sections at the bottom of the wiki page for user success /
failure reports. The idea is that if you have a specific combination of
hardware that actually works, you can list it here and make it easy for
new users to find a similar setup instead of using the trial-and-error
approach. 

If anyone has a working Hurd install, please add a line with your
hardware setup to the success section.

> > the Hurd died with errors complaining it couldn't read the
> > disk partition.
>
> 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.

I believe it was a 20 or 30GB drive. Unfortunately, I tossed it back
into a container with many other unused drives and I'm not certain which
it was. If I get a chance to do some testing, I'll post the results in
the wiki.

-Steve