GNU/Hurd on real hardware

GNU/Hurd on real hardware

[Gabriel Wicki]

Hi y'all

Following the inspiration given in the recent blog post I dug out an old
ThinkPad T410 and tried my best.

Unfortunately the installer created from a recent checkout crashes with
a kernel panic.  Does anybody know what commit a working installer for
GNU/Hurd can be built with?

TIA,
g

Re: GNU/Hurd on real hardware

[Janneke Nieuwenhuizen]

Gabriel Wicki writes:

Hello Gabriel,

> Following the inspiration given in the recent blog post I dug out an old
> ThinkPad T410 and tried my best.

That's great, thanks for trying!

> Unfortunately the installer created from a recent checkout crashes with
> a kernel panic.  Does anybody know what commit a working installer for
> GNU/Hurd can be built with?

As you may have seen in <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2024-11/msg00259.html>,
I succeeded in building a 32bit installer from commit

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commit cd26d76fedb7ab13ad91bd5dcfce119892b8e62e
news: Add entry for the Guix survey.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

using this extra patch

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diff --git a/gnu/system/install.scm b/gnu/system/install.scm
index 4de903c59b..35c4923627 100644
--- a/gnu/system/install.scm
+++ b/gnu/system/install.scm
@@ -521,6 +521,7 @@ (define installation-os
     ;; non-functional:
     ;; <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-03/msg00441.html>.
     ;; Thus, blacklist it.
+    (kernel linux-libre-5.15)
     (kernel-arguments '("quiet" "modprobe.blacklist=radeon,amdgpu"))
 
     (file-systems
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

because with the default 6.x kernel, my X60 panics.  AFAIK there is
nothing special about that commit, it's just a more recent one than
I had been using for earlier images.

Anyway, building it by doing

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make && ./pre-inst-env guix system image --image-type=iso9660 --system=i686-linux gnu/system/install.scm 
=>
https://dezyne.org/janneke/hurd/b40rrc9031gfa9cz06kgk3jcs6xcmdah-image.iso
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I was hoping this would fix it for everyone, however, Tanguy reported
that installer also panics for them.  So yeah, YMMV.

Greetings and good luck!
Janneke

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