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<dragestil>i'm trying out hurd for the first time. following the instructions at https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/running/qemu.html except substituing kvm with `qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm`, i got put in the maintenance shell right away, apparently because of root system is read-only. does anyone know how i can fix it?

<damo22>i386 not x86_64

<damo22>qemu-system-i386 -M q35,accel=kvm -m 4096 -net user,hostfwd=tcp::8888-:22 -net nic -curses

<damo22>and pass the hdd image

<dragestil>i don't have qemu-system-i386

<dragestil>let me see if i can get one

<damo22>it may still work with x86_64 actually

<dragestil>i got qemu-system-i386, and ran the command in the qemu link above, but got the same error. i'm going to try your command

<damo22>can you paste a screenshot of the terminal when it fails

<dragestil>will do once your command has finished running

<damo22>?

<damo22>my command is to launch qemu

<dragestil>i assume it is not a good idea to boot the same image simultaneously with two qemu commands

<damo22>correct

<dragestil>now i'm getting a different error: start ext2fs: ext2fs: device:hd0s2: No such device or address

<damo22>you need to pass the hdd image

<damo22>on the end of the command

<dragestil>yeah i did

<dragestil>this is what i ran: qemu-system-i386 -M q35,accel=kvm -m 4096 -net user,hostfwd=tcp::8888-:22 -net nic -curses debian-hurd-20210219.img

<damo22>hmm you can try my full command:

<damo22>qemu-system-i386 -M q35,accel=kvm -m 4096 -net user,hostfwd=tcp::8888-:22 -net nic -curses -drive id=udisk,file=debian-hurd-20210219.img,format=raw,if=none -device ide-hd,drive=udisk,bootindex=1

<dragestil>ok

<dragestil>is there a way to exit the ncurses qemu run

<damo22>shutdown

<dragestil>without killing the containing terminal

<dragestil>i can't type anything there

<damo22>ctrl-alt-d

<dragestil>i'll just kill the terminal emulator then

<dragestil>ok

<dragestil>nope

<dragestil>no response

<damo22>ok

<damo22>strange

<dragestil>anyway, i killed the terminal emulator

<dragestil>i ran your full command and it seems to be stuck at the same place

<dragestil>would you like me to paste the whole screen

<damo22>stuck where

<damo22>yes

<damo22>can you pastebin it

<damo22>it should be text based using curses

<dragestil>yeah, one moment as i have to remove all the leading spaces

<dragestil> https://paste.debian.net/hidden/377df3e5/

<damo22>yeah looks like the config is incorrect and should be pointing to sd0s2

<damo22>instead of hd0s2

<dragestil>ok. https://paste.debian.net/hidden/40cc9637/

<dragestil>this is the result when i run the original command from the qemu page on hurd wiki, with an extra curses

<dragestil>looks like the issue is related to hd0s2 in this case too

<dragestil>original command with s/kvm/qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm/ though i386 produces the same result iirc

<damo22>does grub appear at boot?

<dragestil>yes when running without -curses

<damo22>you can edit the config and root=/dev/sd0s2

<damo22>instead of hd0s2

<dragestil>in grub?

<damo22>hyes

<dragestil>ok let me try that

<dragestil>i replaced one occurrence of hd0s2 by sd0s2. now it complains "device:sd0s2: No such device or address". I'll try again to see whether i should prepend a /dev in the config

<dragestil>the part where i edited says "root=device:hd0s2"

<dragestil>changing it to root=device:/dev/sd0s2 result in the same error, I'll try root=/dev/sd0s2

<damo22>oh

<damo22>device:sd0s2

<damo22>just change h -> s

<dragestil>now it's showing a different error "ext2fs: /dev/sd0s2: gratuitous error"

<damo22>sorry

<dragestil>yes that's what i did in the first try

<dragestil>but i got the "device:sd0s2: No such device or address"

<dragestil>after just changing h->s

<damo22>oh ok

<damo22>it worked with h->s