Hello, On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 03:07:53PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 01:12:40PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > > I put much hope into my old box, but I forgot that it had some weird > > software RAID stuff embedded into the motherboard, which I cannot turn > > off. When I tried to install Debian Hurd on this box, the installation > > system could not detect my hard drives at all. > > The installation system is an old Linux 2.2 (?) one, but if that one has > problems detecting your HDs, then GNU Mach likely also will have. To > check that, you could simply boot a GNU Mach kernel on it (just the > kernel, nothing else) and have a look at the kernel messages. Perhaps > we're lucky.
Suppose I take the gnumach executable I'm using presently under QEMU, put it on the partition I have created on the old computer for the Hurd, then create a GRUB entry similar to the one I'm using at the moment. Is this the right course of actions or did you mean something else by saying ``boot a GNU Mach kernel''? > I'm obviously a bit reluctant to replace flubber's pfinet with the > in-progress one, but what I can offer is that you get a separate Xen domU > on zenhost (where flubber is also running on) and you can do in that one > whatever you want. Oh, yes, indeed, I forgot that testing Zheng's suite would require changing pfinet :-( Regards, scolobb
