RE: Hurd stopped working :(

[Brent Fulgham <bfulgham@xpsystems.com>]

> I upgraded to the new packages on the debian mirrors (from 
> sep 07?). After upgrading and rebooting, everything worked 
> nice, but from the second boot onwards, the boot process 
> freezes right after the partition check. How do I tinker 
> with my Hurd files to fix this problem?
> 
I experienced the same problem.  In my case, it seems to be
due to a slowly failing disk drive.  I would recommend booting
to a Linux rescue disk, running `fsck -c -f` on the root
partition (Hurd) and repair any problems.

This should allow you to boot.

How old is your disk drive?..... :-\


-Brent