From 83dea7ded79964148aff8826e6c0b0bc8be485c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 23:52:49 +0100 Subject: hurd/running/faq/native-install_doesnt_finish: New. From three emails on bug-hurd, 2009-11. --- hurd/running/faq/native-install_doesnt_finish.mdwn | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+) create mode 100644 hurd/running/faq/native-install_doesnt_finish.mdwn (limited to 'hurd/running/faq') diff --git a/hurd/running/faq/native-install_doesnt_finish.mdwn b/hurd/running/faq/native-install_doesnt_finish.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a852e1dd --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/running/faq/native-install_doesnt_finish.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +Copying baseGNU to the virtual disk works. Even booting got through but when I +try to run native-install it never gets to the very end. First time it froze on +*sed* package, the other time on *sysv-rc*. + +> How much memory did you configure for the [[QEMU]] system? It may simply be +> -- I've seen this myself -- that the system runs out of memory, as at the +> native-install stage (I think at least) swap is not yet configured and +> enabled. What I've been doing is: boot (with -s), MAKEDEV hdWHATEVER in +> /dev/ for the swap device, run /hurd/mach-defpager, followed by swapon +> /dev/hdWHATEVER. Does this help? + +>> Thank You very much, more memory solved the freezing. + +[[!tag open_issue_hurd]] -- cgit v1.2.3