Debian GNU/HURD 2017 released

Only few queries: The support for audio, usb, firewire and other devices at which point is GNU/Hurd? Will be possible initialize GNU/HURD on Thinkpad T23, T40...? How long again? Awaiting for your reply Greetings, Paolo iw0fzw

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd 2017 released!

Hi, Samuel Thibault wrote: > I rather guess the double-buffering support in grub. But where would that be controllable ? grub-mkimage --help has no options for that. Google does not find me any clue about grub.cfg statements which would promise to do it. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd 2017 released!

Thomas Schmitt, on mar. 20 juin 2017 23:01:26 +0200, wrote: > If i only knew what Vladimir meant with "disable double buffering > and try again" to diagnose the menu graphics problem. > Maybe the X extension about double frame buffering: >

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd 2017 released!

Hi, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Files on > https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/installer/cdimage/daily/ > are now updated accordingly Oh yes. Now it looks much better and should be digestible for partition editors.

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Hello, Thomas Schmitt, on mar. 20 juin 2017 14:32:40 +0200, wrote: > So my proposal to Debian GNU/Hurd is to boldly add option > --protective-msdos-label > to the debian-installer run of xorriso -as mkisofs for hurd. Files on

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd 2017 released!

Hi, my assembler reading skills are obviously insufficient. It turns out that the bytes in the MBR partition table range are not significant for booting the ISO from qemu -hda. I boldly zeroed them in a copy of the GNU/Hurd ISO and it still boots. (To make sure that it does not boot by El Torito

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Thomas Schmitt, on mar. 20 juin 2017 11:24:42 +0200, wrote: > Did you already talk to Steve McIntyre about the appearance of amd64 > on your VM ? IIRC I reported the issue, I don't have the reference off-hand. Samuel

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Hi, i wrote: > > https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-9.0.0-amd64 -netinst.iso > > With OVMF, GRUB2 is in charge and works fine. Samuel Thibault wrote: > That's probably sheer luck. > [ Part 2, Image/PNG 545 KB. ] Wow. That's really unusable. The appearance of

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd 2017 released!

Thomas Schmitt, on mar. 20 juin 2017 09:42:00 +0200, wrote: > But it uses a blob as first part of that file: > > cat "/usr/lib/grub/$platform/boot.img" "$workdir/core.img" > > "$outdir/boot/grub/grub_embed" > > I have one on my Debian 8: > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Mar 23 2015

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Hi, i found https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/debian-installer.git/tree/build/util/x86-image which indeed produces a file grub_embed. But it uses a blob as first part of that file: cat "/usr/lib/grub/$platform/boot.img" "$workdir/core.img" > "$outdir/boot/grub/grub_embed" I have one on

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd 2017 released!

Hi, i wrote: > > I would need to know how the MBR and the subsequent data blocks > > are produced. Samuel Thibault wrote: > The build log is available on > https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/installer/cdimage/daily/debian-cd.log This mentions grub_embed two times when xorriso gets

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd 2017 released!

Thomas Schmitt, on mar. 20 juin 2017 00:05:01 +0200, wrote: > > Ask grub people then :) > > I would need to know how the MBR and the subsequent data blocks > are produced. The build log is available on https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/installer/cdimage/daily/debian-cd.log

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Hi, i wrote: > > i see a quite insane MBR partition table: Samuel Thibault wrote: > That's not surprising by nowadays' """ISO""" image standard: they are > both valid as CD image, usb stick image, etc. Sure. But normally the MBR has a valid partition table. Not only the ISOLINUX MBR of Debian

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd 2017 released!

Hello, Thomas Schmitt, on dim. 18 juin 2017 11:07:36 +0200, wrote: > > http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports-cd/hurd-i386/debian-hurd-2017/debian-hurd-2017-i386-NETINST-1.iso > > i see a quite insane MBR partition table: That's not surprising by nowadays' """ISO""" image standard: they

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Thank you developers for your constant hard work on Debian Hurd!

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Samuel Thibault writes: > It is with huge pleasure that the Debian GNU/Hurd team announces the > release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2017. That’s awesome! Thank you! I’d just like to note that "Hurd in 140 letters command" still works:

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Hi, in http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports-cd/hurd-i386/debian-hurd-2017/debian-hurd-2017-i386-NETINST-1.iso i see a quite insane MBR partition table: $ /sbin/fdisk -lu debian-hurd-2017-i386-NETINST-1.iso ... Disklabel type: dos ... Device Boot

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Merci beaucoup to All for big work

Debian GNU/Hurd 2017 released!

It is with huge pleasure that the Debian GNU/Hurd team announces the release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2017. This is a snapshot of Debian "sid" at the time of the stable Debian "stretch" release (May 2017), so it is mostly based on the same sources. It is not an official Debian release, but it is an