Hello Svante, Svante Signell <svante.sign...@gmail.com> writes: > What about hurd?
Hurd can be used with QEMU on Linux-based Guix System; see the childhurd section in the manual. However, I tried and somewhat failed to run on my real hardware (a Beebox mini PC): When booting, the Hurd runs an rc script which freezes. I make /dev/sda1 an ext2 filesystem and use a slightly modified /run/current-system/profile/share/guile/site/3.0/gnu/system/examples/bare-hurd.scm as the template for a manual installation (with the usual steps from the Guix manual). Note: e2fsprogs is needed for manual installation but is not installed in the rc1 installer image; a bug <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/58239>. (Thank you for making me notice the bug!) After these preparations, I run: guix system init /mnt/etc/config.scm /mnt --target=i586-pc-gnu --skip-checks Then a last step: Open `guix repl` and run ,use (gnu build hurd-boot) (make-hurd-device-nodes "/mnt") It installs and runs somewhat iff I edit the GRUB boot options (with the E key in the boot menu) to boot from sd0s1 instead of hd0s1, on every boot. If I forget to do this, I need to run `fsck.ext2 /dev/sda1` from the installer image before I can boot the already installed Hurd again. Anyway, it starts /gnu/store/38sb8h…-system/rc, which freezes. Also note that the Hurd release shipped with Guix has known security issues (see Sergey Bugaev’s writeups; there has not yet been a new mig release since and Guix would need it for newer Hurd, I think). Note: These instructions are the result of trial and error. I am not a hurd user (yet) and don’t know details. Regards, Florian
