Re: Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 released!
On 8/10/25 17:49, Samuel Thibault wrote:
Dennis Clarke, le dim. 10 août 2025 17:45:52 -0400, a ecrit:
On 8/10/25 17:24, Samuel Thibault wrote:
Dennis Clarke, le dim. 10 août 2025 17:19:23 -0400, a ecrit:
On 8/9/25 18:37, Samuel Thibault wrote:
It is with huge pleasure that the Debian GNU/Hurd team announces the
release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2025.
The NETINST iso image does not boot. At all.
It does boot (I produced the pre-installed images with them)
So, as very usual, details needed to be able to do anything about this
report.
I just did the usual dd of the NETINST file to a USB thing and then
tried to boot it.
What did you boot? Qemu? virtualbox? vmware? A random arm64 metal
machine? A toaster?
To do a reasonable test I thought that real hardware would be best.
The test hardware is an old motherboard :
https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/ecs-rs880pm-am-v-1-0
Why that old thing?
It is old enough that every device on it has long since been
supported in every major Linux distro on the planet.
It runs Gentoo just fine.
I did download the new NETINST iso file and then burn it to a DVD-RW :
hydra# /opt/schily/bin/cdrecord -v -dev=3,0,0 \
> -fs=32m driveropts=burnfree -sao \
> debian-hurd-2025-amd64-NETINST-1.iso
Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 3.02 2024/03/18 (amd64-unknown-freebsd14.0)
Copyright (C) 1995-2019 Joerg Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '3,0,0'
scsibus: 3 target: 0 lun: 0
Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'.
Driveropts: 'burnfree'
SCSI buffer size: 64512
atapi: 0
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities :
Vendor_info : 'HL-DT-ST'
Identifikation : 'DVDRAM GH70N '
Revision : 'UGA0'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM.
Current: DVD-RW sequential recording
Profile: DVD-RAM
Profile: DVD-R sequential recording
Profile: DVD-R/DL sequential recording
Profile: DVD-R/DL layer jump recording
Profile: DVD-RW sequential recording (current)
Profile: DVD-RW restricted overwrite (current)
Profile: DVD+RW
Profile: DVD+R
Profile: DVD+R/DL
Profile: DVD-ROM
Profile: CD-R
Profile: CD-RW
Profile: CD-ROM
Profile: Removable Disk
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc-2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM driver (mmc_dvd).
Driver flags : NO-CD DVD MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: PACKET SAO LAYER_JUMP
Drive buf size : 1114112 = 1088 KB
Drive pbuf size: 1966080 = 1920 KB
Drive DMA Speed: 20743 kB/s 117x CD 14x DVD 4x BD
FIFO size : 33554432 = 32768 KB
Track 01: data 304 MB
.
.
. etc etc
.
Track 01: 304 of 304 MB written (fifo 100%) [buf 100%] 2.0x.
Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 319617024/319617024 (156063 sectors).
Writing time: 157.016s (00:02:37.016)
Average write speed 1.5x.
Min drive buffer fill was 100%
Fixating...
Fixating time: 280.398s (00:04:40.398)
cdrecord: fifo had 9754 puts and 9754 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 4695 times full, min fill was 99%.
hydra#
* * * verify * * *
I then verify that the DVD-RW media has the correct data with a read
to a test file foo.iso :
hydra# /opt/schily/bin/readcd -v -dev=3,0,0 meshpoints=32 speed=2 f=foo.iso
scsidev: '3,0,0'
scsibus: 3 target: 0 lun: 0
Read speed: 3324 kB/s (CD 18x, DVD 2x, BD 0x).
Write speed: 1385 kB/s (CD 7x, DVD 1x, BD 0x).
Capacity: 156063 Blocks = 312126 kBytes = 304 MBytes = 319 prMB
Sectorsize: 2048 Bytes
Copy from SCSI (3,0,0) disk to file 'foo.iso'
end: 156063
addr: 4896 cnt: 32 4896 1232.88
addr: 9760 cnt: 32 9760 1707.49
.
.
.
addr: 146304 cnt: 32 146304 1935.34
addr: 151168 cnt: 32 151168 1942.94
addr: 156063 cnt: 31
Time total: 177.402sec
Read 312126.00 kB at 1759.4 kB/sec.
hydra#
* * * check the SHA256 * * *
The verify the SHA256 hash of that foo.iso :
hydra# curl -L
'https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/13.0/hurd-amd64/SHA256SUMS' |
grep -i 'netinst'
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time
Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left
Speed
100 2204 100 2204 0 0 4875 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--
4886
9871d70bdc1e71b5571bb534a63280d69cbc72c0ac80da101ed454f122860bbe
./iso-cd/debian-hurd-2025-amd64-NETINST-1.iso
hydra# openssl dgst -sha256 -r foo.iso
9871d70bdc1e71b5571bb534a63280d69cbc72c0ac80da101ed454f122860bbe *foo.iso
hydra#
That is a good NETINST dvd. Which does indeed boot. Clearly a USB type
netinst thing was a mistake. Maybe USB just doesn't work at all?
The initial Debian GRUB menu appears. Yay. Then I can select a default
keyboard and hit enter. Keep hitting enter on the defaults and I then
get to a console that says a few things and then stops entirely. All
except for a message about waiting for some USB device. Over and over
every 60 secs. Forever I guess.
I took a whole sequence of pictures also, see :
https://www.genunix.com/dclarke/hurd/
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Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken
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