Re: 64bit startup

[Luca]

Hi Sergey,

Il 03/01/24 09:17, Sergey Bugaev ha scritto:
> How are you running it? Should I still be using a ramdisk image and
> not rumpdisk?

Recently I've been installing hurd-amd64 on another disk of my hurd-i386 
vm and booting from that. Basically I prepare the disk with debootstrap 
--foreign, then I reuse the i386 grub install to boot the 64 bit kernel 
with a custom entry, then run the --second stage, configure login, fstab 
and network and reboot. I can give you the exact commands and setup I'm 
using if you want (I need to reinstall it anyway due to latest changes),

I'm currently using qemu via virt-manager, mostly with the default 
configuration for an x86_64 vm; that means a virtual SATA disk 
controller and Q35 chipset.

The only issue I see is that sometimes at shutdown rumpdisk hangs and I 
can't halt the system, however this seems the same with hurd-i686 and it 
doesn't happen if I force the shutdown with halt-hurd (or reboot-hurd). 
I didn't had a deeper look at this so far, but I don't have issues 
booting or connecting via ssh. I didn't try heavy builds, so probably 
that's why I don't see Samuel's issue, but I've been building gdb and 
the hurd itself (for a fix for the crash server that I have in my queue).


Luca