Peter Wiehe writes:
> Hello,
> I'm new to Hurd and this mailing list.
>
> Is Debian GNU/Hurd able to be installed on an UEFI PC?
Are you certain that you want to install the Hurd on bare hardware? The
Hurd is not as stable as GNU/Linux. Most Hurd developers run the Hurd
in qemu. This is proba
Peter Wiehe, le sam. 16 nov. 2019 16:41:06 +0100, a ecrit:
> Is Debian GNU/Hurd able to be installed on an UEFI PC?
Actually there is no technical reason why it shouldn't work: it's grub
which has to care about BIOS vs UEFI.
That being said, it seems that the hurd-i386 variant of the Debian
insta
Hi,
Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Actually there is no technical reason why it shouldn't work: it's grub
> which has to care about BIOS vs UEFI.
>
> That being said, it seems that the hurd-i386 variant of the Debian
> installation CDs can't be booted on UEFI. I don't know why, it's using
> grub, like t
Thomas Schmitt, le dim. 17 nov. 2019 16:39:28 +0100, a ecrit:
> Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > That being said, it seems that the hurd-i386 variant of the Debian
> > installation CDs can't be booted on UEFI. I don't know why, it's using
> > grub, like the i386 variant.
>
> The immediate cause is the l
Hi,
Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Mmm, actually I had tested with the amd64 debian iso image , not the
> i386. The i386
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/10.2.0/i386/iso-cd/debian-10.2.0-i386-netinst.iso
> has the same issue,
Aren't amd64 and i386 GNU/Linux systems ?
Those have ISOLINUX equipm
Thomas Schmitt, le dim. 17 nov. 2019 18:35:34 +0100, a ecrit:
> Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Mmm, actually I had tested with the amd64 debian iso image , not the
> > i386. The i386
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/10.2.0/i386/iso-cd/debian-10.2.0-i386-netinst.iso
> > has the same issue,
>
Thomas Schmitt, le dim. 17 nov. 2019 18:35:34 +0100, a ecrit:
> Can it be that hurd-i386 is prepared by
>
> https://sources.debian.org/src/debian-cd/3.1.27/tools/boot/bullseye/boot-hurd-common
It is. I have now pushed EFI code there.
I have regenerated
http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd
Samuel Thibault, le dim. 17 nov. 2019 18:58:08 +0100, a ecrit:
> Thomas Schmitt, le dim. 17 nov. 2019 18:35:34 +0100, a ecrit:
> > Can it be that hurd-i386 is prepared by
> >
> > https://sources.debian.org/src/debian-cd/3.1.27/tools/boot/bullseye/boot-hurd-common
>
> It is. I have now pushed EF
Samuel Thibault, le dim. 17 nov. 2019 18:58:08 +0100, a ecrit:
> kvm -cdrom debian-sid-hurd-i386-NETINST-1.iso -bios OVMF.fd
>
> doesn't manage to boot it. Perhaps that's a kvm issue, or perhaps that's
> a grub-ia32 issue (since I can't boot a linux-i386 image either),
Mmm, OVMF.fd is a 64bit fir
Samuel Thibault, le dim. 17 nov. 2019 19:08:20 +0100, a ecrit:
> Samuel Thibault, le dim. 17 nov. 2019 18:58:08 +0100, a ecrit:
> > kvm -cdrom debian-sid-hurd-i386-NETINST-1.iso -bios OVMF.fd
> >
> > doesn't manage to boot it. Perhaps that's a kvm issue, or perhaps that's
> > a grub-ia32 issue (si
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Hi,
Samuel Thibault wrote:
> kvm -cdrom debian-sid-hurd-i386-NETINST-1.iso -bios OVMF.fd
> doesn't manage to boot it. Perhaps that's a kvm issue, or perhaps that's
> a grub-ia32 issue (since I can't boot a linux-i386 image either)
Indeed, this gives a "UEFI Interactive Shell" prompt and no Debian
Thomas Schmitt, le dim. 17 nov. 2019 20:42:37 +0100, a ecrit:
> The most obvious difference is in the two EFI System Partitions:
>
> $ cd /mnt/fat_hurd
> $ find .
> .
> ./efi
> ./efi/boot
> ./efi/boot/bootia32.efi
>
> $ cd /mnt/fat_i386
> $ find .
> .
> ./efi
> ./efi/boot
>
Samuel Thibault, le dim. 17 nov. 2019 19:08:20 +0100, a ecrit:
> Samuel Thibault, le dim. 17 nov. 2019 18:58:08 +0100, a ecrit:
> > kvm -cdrom debian-sid-hurd-i386-NETINST-1.iso -bios OVMF.fd
> >
> > doesn't manage to boot it. Perhaps that's a kvm issue, or perhaps that's
> > a grub-ia32 issue (si
Hi,
Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Indeed, a 32bit version of OVMF is needed. I could grab one,
This explains why i could not repeat my success with qemu-system-i386.
(Now i wonder what i did to fall victim to that illusion.)
> grub boots fine. gnumach however doesn't.
Good luck with the rest of the
Samuel Thibault, le dim. 17 nov. 2019 21:31:50 +0100, a ecrit:
> Samuel Thibault, le dim. 17 nov. 2019 19:08:20 +0100, a ecrit:
> > Samuel Thibault, le dim. 17 nov. 2019 18:58:08 +0100, a ecrit:
> > > kvm -cdrom debian-sid-hurd-i386-NETINST-1.iso -bios OVMF.fd
> > >
> > > doesn't manage to boot it
Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>
>On an amd64 system i can get UEFI equipment in a grub-mkrescue ISO
>by installing binary packages grub-efi-amd64-bin and/or grub-efi-ia32-bin.
>This can be further combined with grub-pc-bin for PC-BIOS.
>Then i run grub-mkrescue with a dummy payload directory instead of a
>
Steve McIntyre, le dim. 17 nov. 2019 20:36:13 +, a ecrit:
> 1. adding UEFI support in debian-cd for the hurd-i386 CD
> build. That's easy
Yes, that's now on
https://salsa.debian.org/images-team/debian-cd/merge_requests/5
> 3. Finally (the elephant in the room) - booting via UEFI is not
Am 17. November 2019 22:14:05 MEZ schrieb Samuel Thibault
:
>Steve McIntyre, le dim. 17 nov. 2019 20:36:13 +, a ecrit:
>> to support UEFI initialisation etc.
>
>What I can think of is memory layout initialization and PCI BIOS
>support, do you think of anything else?
>
I don't know if this
On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 10:14:05PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>Steve McIntyre, le dim. 17 nov. 2019 20:36:13 +, a ecrit:
>> 1. adding UEFI support in debian-cd for the hurd-i386 CD
>> build. That's easy
>
>Yes, that's now on
>https://salsa.debian.org/images-team/debian-cd/merge_requests
Am 17. November 2019 23:09:18 MEZ schrieb Steve McIntyre :
>you'll
>probably need to make your initial boot binary be a PE UEFI
>executable.
No, afaik that's not neccessary if you boot from an intermediate bootloader
like grub.
Peter
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